New mother’s Joburg hospital nightmare via TheCitizen_News
More cracks are beginning to show in Gauteng’s public health system as climbing Covid-19 cases continue filling up beds and waiting areas in hospitals, including Johannesburg’s Charlotte Maxeke Academic hospital, where a patient who claims she was horrified by her experience. Lutendo Kutama was discharged from the hospital’s maternity ward on Thursday, she claims, after enduring three days of hunger and trauma.
Having carried her pregnancy to term she was referred to the hospital on the Friday 10 July by the Hillbrow Antenatal Clinic. Despite being an at-risk patient, whose high fever was flagged on arrival, she was not isolated and no attempts were made to test her she claims. She was instead taken to a waiting area where some people were under investigation for Covid-19 infection.
After delivering a healthy baby boy, she was to be left alone again for hours back at her ward. When she came to from anaesthesia, her baby was next to her, had filled his nappy, and she was in so much pain she could hardly muster up the strength to lift her upper body so she could tend to her child. Pain medication would not be administered for hours as she lay hungry and weak from surgery.
“We are still busy with other patients and we will do your paperwork when we are ready,” she was apparently told. By midday she had been sworn at and told she would be punished for trying to rush the nurses. She spent the entire day waiting and left in the late afternoon.
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