Nurses at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Johannesburg say they had to use their own money to buy patients bread for breakfast. | TebogoMonama
Doctors at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Johannesburg say that for the past three weeks, the patient food supply has been declining.
They say things got so bad on Tuesday that nurses had to use their own money to buy patients bread for breakfast. For lunch, the patients had food purchased from street vendors. Speaking to News24 on condition of anonymity, a doctor said the lack of food was a humanitarian crisis. Subscribe to News24 for just R75 per month to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. You can cancel any time.
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