By Akani Nkuna
The Health Ombud has found serious lapses in clinical care, record-keeping, and hospital management in two separate cases in which patients died at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre in Johannesburg and Pietersburg Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Limpopo.
Releasing his findings on Wednesday, Health Ombud Professor Taole Mokoena said the investigations were conducted in terms of Section 81A(11) of the National Health Amendment Act after complaints from the families of Dr Edward Mabubula and Mr Pitsi Eliphuz Ramphele.
The first complaint was lodged on 20 May 2021 by Dr Mabubula’s wife, Irene Tebogo Mabubula, over the care her husband received at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre’s oncology ward.
Dr Mabubula, who had metastatic colon cancer, a history of pulmonary TB, lung resection for metastases and hypertension, attended the ward on 27 March 2021 for removal of an ambulatory chemotherapy pump inserted two days earlier.
According to the findings,
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