Although individual families of the mental healthcare users who died after they were discharged from Life Esidimeni in 2016 have been compensated for the violation of their constitutional rights, the actors responsible for the deaths, suffering, and torture of the mental healthcare patients have yet to be held criminally accountable.
But that could change after a formal Judicial Inquest into the deaths, starting at the Pretoria High Court on 19 July 2021.
144 deaths: How we got here
As a result of the unlawful and uncaring actions of the Gauteng Department of Health, 144 mental healthcare users died in conditions which the Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke described as “cruel, inhuman and degrading.”
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