Bheki Mlangeni Hospital overcrowded and ill equipped to handle risky births
7 January 2020
I am concerned that the 33-bed Antenatal Ward at the troubled Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto is currently full, and 14 other expectant mothers, including high risk cases, have been put in other wards.
The risky cases include five patients who are past their expected delivery date who are now in the Labour Ward when they should have been transferred to a higher level hospital.
The problem is that Bheki Mlangeni is only a low-level District Hospital and does not have the highly trained midwives and 24-hour doctors in its maternity section to handle complicated births.
This hospital needs to be expanded and upgraded in order to provide a proper health service to Soweto residents.