Fingers pointed with nurses and Health MEC shifting the blame after babies 🍼 were found sleeping in boxes at Mahikeng Provincial Hospital due to crib and incubator shortages🛏️ infantcare healthnews TheCitizenNews Read the 😲 shocking story
He further highlighted that other protocols were not followed. For instance, the hospital could have discharged mothers and babies that were doing well in their checkups to make space. The hospital could have also procured spare cribs and incubators from other facilities in the district and province when they realised they had reached capacity.“Nothing was wrong except the humiliating aspect of the cardboard boxes,” he said.
Provincial Chairperson Mzwakhe Seleke insisted that nurses had informed hospital management before Saturday about the crib shortage. “There is a shortage of capacity, manpower and cribs at that hospital. The ward accommodates 25 patients; the MEC said 47 patients. That ward was at double capacity with only seven nurses on duty,” said Seleke.
Seleke said the department needed to hold the hospital executive accountable in the same way it had done with nurses.
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