First his ambulance was attacked, then he lay for hours without food or care as the workload overwhelmed nurses.
First critically ill Miguel Marais, 13, had to run the gauntlet of angry, striking workers when his ambulance arrived at Stanger Hospital — then he lay hungry and unattended, in his own urine, in a ward where two nurses
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