Frail care facilities in Nelson Mandela Bay are buckling under pressure and can no longer accept Sassa patients without additional payments from relatives.
Nelson Mandela Bay’s 10 state-funded old age homes are on their knees as a meagre subsidy and the escalating cost of food and other basics create a perfect storm.
Responding to recent reports of officials failing the elderly at retirement homes and frail care centres in the metro by not paying up on time, the social development department has denied being at fault.