CRITICAL MEDICINE SHORTAGE AT JOBURG HOSPITAL
Many patients at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital do not receive their medicines and either go without or have to buy from a private pharmacy.
This week I was shocked by the case of Mrs Shamrock Rademeyer, a 65-year-old pensioner, whose family has to spend about R6000 every month on medicine that is perennially out of stock at the hospital.
Her daughter Shamaine gave me the following list of items she buys every month
Ezetrol - R600 a month for anti-cholesterol tablets
Cardura - R500 blood pressure pills