Daily Sun (September 9 2014) - After eight years of waiting, the brand new, R1,7-billion hospital was opened with a fancy ceremony.
BUT LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LATER CHAOS RULES, WITH SUFFERING PATIENTS SLEEPING ON THE ICY FLOOR!
The new Natalspruit Hospital in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni replaced the old one, which was built on an unstable foundation. It's very beautiful on the outside - but it's a different story inside.
Women patients in ward 18 sleep on the floor, in chairs and on stretchers. A patient who didn't want to be named toldDaily Sun about conditions there. "When I arrived I was put in one of the six beds in the ward because I was a new patient," she said.
"But the next day they moved me to a chair and put a new emergency patient in the bed."
The People's Paper attended the glitzy event when Gauteng Premier David Makhura and Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi opened the hospital on 28 August.