Psychiatric patients languish at Joburg Hospital
15 December 2016
At least 8 psychiatric patients have spent more than a week in the casualty department of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital as the Psychiatric ward is full.
This was told to Debbie Beech of the Alzheimer's SA organization when she attempted to assist an 85-year-old woman with suspected Alzheimer's get admitted to the hospital this week.
She says that a doctor discharged the woman and told her that she did not care if she ended up on the street.
This is appalling maltreatment which shows the general poor treatment of mental health patients in Gauteng.