DA Gauteng calls for inquiry into state of mental healthcare facilities
20 November 2018
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will submit a request to the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Health in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, Nompi Nhlapo, to launch an urgent inquiry into the state of mental healthcare facilities.
This as 90 workers at the San Michele Home for the mentally disabled in Brakpan are protesting over a wage dispute.
One patient has died and the lives of more than 200 other patients in danger.
San Michele Home for the mentally challenged is a registered NPO, which has been in existence since 1945, relying mainly on government funding and donations from the public. Many of the patients in its care, who are between 18 and 84, have no family and no means of support other than that provided by the home.