In February, Stix Morewa Hospital in Selby, Johannesburg, sent out a letter to families, saying that mental health patients would have had to be transferred elsewhere.
Fears mounted over the potential for another Life Esidimeni tragedy after the families of more than 400 mental healthcare patients at Solomon Stix Morewa Hospital were told by the Gauteng Department of Health that it would terminate its contract with the hospital by the end of March. Fears moun.