Polokwane Provincial Hospital in Limpopo has been plagued by a rat and cockroach infestation, with patients now worried about nosocomial infections.
The provincial health department on Tuesday confirmed that there was an increase in pests at the facility.
"Patients get admitted, only to become worse. It is for this reason that health facilities in Limpopo are referred to as hospitals of death," the EFF in Limpopo said."We can't do anything but wait for the authorities. Some of us are afraid of rats, and it's just not good at all," one staffer said. "The matter of increase [of pests] is a matter we deal with on a regular basis through our environmental health unit in order to find the factors which might be causing the increase, so as to find other measures to be taken."Of course, we are preparing for this quarter's fumigation, [which] will happen anytime from now, as one of the mitigating factors to deal with the challenge.
Shikwambana said the unspent amount was R46.7 million, which the department used to purchase machinery and equipment for cancer treatment.
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