April 3, 2018
The doctors in Malamulele Hospital downed their tools on Tuesday in protest for proper working conditions.
Their demands include the reinstating of sectional doctors, water in the hospital, x-ray machines and they also demand that the MEC of Health in Limpopo, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, apologises about the statement she made on a radio station.
It is alleged that Ramathuba said that doctors in Malamulele Hospital are incompetent.
This came after a nine-year-old boy died in a queue after he was discharged on Friday without having been cured and he died while queuing for re-admittance.
According to the report from the South African Human Rights Commission, the boy was also given expired medication.
Ramathuba visited the hospital last Wednesday and lambasted staff members and made changes where she appointed a new CEO, clinical manager and medical manager.
Source: Lataba Herald