A public protector advisory report has found that the Stellenbosch Hospital in 2021 failed to inform parents and police timeously of the alleged rape of a 15-year-old psychiatric patient by a fellow patient.
The doctor on duty in the ward was not immediately informed by the nurse about the act. She recorded the incident in the victim’s file and did not say it was necessary to report the incident to the nursing manager on duty and informed the staff manager about the incident during the handover.
“This may be due to a failure to recognise the seriousness of the event because of the apparent consensual nature even though the one patient was both psychotic and underage. The public protector's office said: “Having considered various legal prescripts and interviewing several persons, conducting an inspection at the hospital, the investigation revealed inter alia that the professional nurse responsible for the adolescent psychiatric unit witnessed the incident, but hospital staff failed to report the matter to the SAPS and instead advised the patient’s mother to report the matter to the SAPS herself.
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