"We need only the truth as to what happened, but we also need to make sure we support the family and offer counselling to the young mother and the rest of the family."
Provincial officials visited the baby s family to
offer support.
The baby was admitted to a hospital in Delmas due
to diarrhoea and was later transferred to eMalahleni.
Mpumalanga Premier Refilwe Mtshweni-Tsipane has
called for an investigation after a three-week-old baby admitted to the Bernice
Samuel Hospital in Delmas for diarrhoea ended up having a hand amputated.
Mtshweni-Tsipane said she wanted answers for what
happened after the baby s hospital admission.
According to the premier s office, the hospital
admitted the infant for diarrhoea before transferring the baby to Witbank
Hospital in eMalahleni, after complications which resulted in amputation.
Mtshweni-Tsipane and Mpumalanga Health MEC Sasekani
SOCCER MATCH ENDS IN BLOODSHED! Tlangelani Khosa And Oris Mnisi 07 April 2021
Comments Mpumalanga Health MEC Sasekani Manzini called on residents to refrain from taking the law into their own hands. Photo by Tlangelani khosa.
A SOCCER match ended in death on Sunday with two other men critically injured.
As if that was not enough, a group of people stormed the Barberton Hospital in Mpumalanga to try and finish off the two.
Police spokesman Colonel Donald Mdhluli said they condemned the incident.
“According to reports, on the said day, a group of people played a soccer match which ended in a dispute which led to a scuffle where two of the players were shot. The two victims, from each soccer team, were separately transported to hospital by two private vehicles, which were identified as a BMW and a Toyota Venture,” said Mdhluli.
After the 2019 elections, new MECs for health (provincial ministers) were appointed in four of South Africa’s nine provinces. Almost two years later, three of the four are no longer in their jobs. This continues a trend whereby seeing out a four-year term as MEC for health is the exception rather than the rule.
Since the day-to-day running of South Africa’s public healthcare system is devolved to provinces, these provincial ministers have an important role to play in ensuring people in South Africa receive quality healthcare. It is thus critically important that only appropriately qualified and committed persons are appointed to these positions. Where MECs are not up to the job or where there are credible charges of corruption against them, they should obviously be removed from these positions.