After a terrifying month-long wait during which his health drastically deteriorated, a young Kariega boy finally received the life-saving ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt surgery he needed at Gqeberha’s Livingstone Hospital on Tuesday morning.
The Eastern Cape health crisis is nothing new and once again the chronic state of the province’s health department has been laid bare by its incompetence.
The parents of a young boy who urgently needs life-saving ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt surgery feared that he might die because Gqeberha’s Livingstone Hospital had no shunts available for the past month for doctors to perform the procedure.