Casualty patients at risk at South Rand Hospital
4 April 2018
Overworked junior doctors at the casualty unit of the South Rand Hospital in south Johannesburg are struggling to treat emergency patients in the face of shortages of basic equipment and drugs.
Most of the time there are only two Community Service doctors running the casualty on 24-hour shifts.
They see more than 100 patients a day but don’t have essential supplies like saline water for rehydration, or blood gas cartridges for diagnoses. They have sometimes even run out of paper for the ECG machines.
And yesterday the x-ray machine was out of order.