Shonisani Lethole's last tweet to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize was a plea for food, seemingly after staff at Tembisa Hospital failed to feed him for two days as he was a patient fighting Covid-19. TheStar_news
Five days after the heartfelt tweet to Mkhize went unanswered, Lethole took his last breath on the cold beds of the Ekurhuleni hospital on Tuesday.
“I have heard that nurses and staff avoid Covid-19 patients because they don’t want to contact it. It’s a sad thing to watch, please do something.” The arts entrepreneur and managing partner at Lean Business Platform South Africa was first taken to Kempton clinic after he complained of back pains and breathing problems.
“Shoni was in a wheelchair and I stood back while the doctor interrogated him, but I could hear the doctor raising his voice and that’s when I stepped in and had a word with the doctor. He blamed the mask, stating that patients cannot hear him, which is why he was loud,” he said. He said his son was on a ventilator and struggled to breathe, and that he couldn’t move around freely.The family were called to the hospital on Saturday, where they were given Shonisani’s belongings. However, the hospital would not give them a proper update on their son’s condition.
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