State hospitals in Nelson Mandela Bay are foundering in the wake of crippling staff shortages, broken equipment, basic drug stockouts, emergency surgery delays, a specialist doctor brain drain, slashed operating times, a lack of nurses and a sharp rise in the neonatal death rate. State hospital.
STR/AFP via Getty Images(EAST LONDON, South Africa) Tear gas or pepper spray was used on patrons at a popular nightclub in South Africa when more than a dozen teenagers mysteriously died there, an eyewitness told ABC News. Sibongile Mtsewu, 22, said he was ordering drinks at the crowded Enyobeni Tavern near the South African city of East London over the weekend, when suddenly the doors were closed and some type of chemical agent was released into the air. "There was no way out," Mtsewu, who lives nearby, told ABC News in a telephone interview Thursday. "There was no chance to breathe." Mtsewu said he passed out after inhaling the substance. He recalled being surrounded by bodies when his brother woke him up some time later. "The tear gas suffocated many people," he told ABC News. "That's why people died." Mtsewu said one of his legs was injured and he has pains in his body from the incident. The South African Police Service has declined to
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