Families in mourning amid the cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal, north of Tshwane, are sharing their pain at losing loved ones to a preventable disease.
Stock, 39, who is a resident of Kanana, lost her grandmother on Sunday, three days after she experienced stomach cramps and diarrhoea. Her condition rapidly“She said it was as if someone was slicing her with a knife in her intestines.”The family took her to the Jubilee District Hospital where she was put on a drip, but she succumbed to the illness.Her grandmother was declared dead on Sunday at about 4am.
“I am angry, I am disappointed, I don't know how to express my feelings. It's too much in“It's very painful because it shows that our government is failing us. We have been fighting this thing of water for a long time.ow we lost our loved one because of their carelessness and them not caring for us.Lucas Thema now has to assume the responsibility of being a parent to his siblings after losing his mother, Johanna Thema.“She got sick on Sunday, she had diarrhoea and was vomiting.
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