Catch every moment as Life Esidimeni families are told how much money they will get for the loss of their loved ones. Looking for a affordable Medical Aid or Hospital Plan, just click here Medical Aid or just send your Name, surname, email address to 082 738 5586
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Watch as #LifeEsidimeni families are awarded settlements
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PREGNANT MOTHER SPEAKS OF HOSPITAL ORDEAL TO REMOVE FETUS
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A pregnant mother, who lost her baby, has described to Eyewitness News her traumatic experience of waiting three days before the fetus could be removed, apparently because of a high demand for cesarean operations at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Johannesburg. Regina Ndahamana arrived with a referral letter at the hospital last Wednesday..
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How to clear your fridge of listeria – [VIDEO]
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Joan van Dyk tells you what to bin and how in under two minutes.
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#Listeriosis: Why your Woolies ham might not be safe
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The head of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases’ listeria investigation, Juno Thomas, tells us which foods to bin and how.
At midnight on 4 March, scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) finally found the source of South Africa’s listeria outbreak: polony from Enterprise Foods’ Polokwane factory.
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Hospitaal van gruwels – Tower- psigiatriese hospitaal in Fort Beaufort, Oos-Kaap
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Psigiatriese pasiënte is weer op skokkende wyse deur die regering versaak skaars 18 maande nadat Rapport die volle omvang van die Life Esidimeni-ramp geopenbaar het waarin 144 pasiënte dood is. Die ingang na die Tower- psigiatriese hospitaal word streng bewaak en Rapport is toegang geweier. Die “haglike en onmenslike” manier waarop pasiënte in ’n..
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How to prevent HIV with a pill
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Mia Malan answers six important questions about the HIV prevention pill in three minutes.
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Slagoffer van plaasaanval sterk goed aan nadat hy privaat mediese sorg ontvang het
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Berdus Henrico, wat verlede week tydens ’n plaasaanval naby Melkrivier gewond is, sterk goed aan nadat hy privaat mediese sorg ontvang het. Hy is aanvanklik in die F.H. Odendaal-hospitaal in Modimolle opgeneem, maar het volgens sy familie nie voldoende mediese sorg ontvang nie. Meer as 36 uur ná die aanval het die hospitaal steeds niks..
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#LifeEsidimeni: Motsoaledi and Makhura could be forced to pay up from their pockets
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Those who oversaw the removal of mental health patients could face the full wrath of the law as could those standing by as KZN’s cancer care fails.
Gauteng health department officials could be criminally charged with culpable homicide for their roles in the Life Esidimeni scandal, says David McQuoid-Mason, a law professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
He believes former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu, her former head of department, Barney Selebano, and the mental health services director, Makgoba Manamela, could be convicted of culpable homicide if prosecutors can prove their negligence caused the deaths of at least 144 patients and that these deaths were illegal. McQuoid-Mason was speaking at a lecture hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics last week.
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The real reason why Gauteng doesn’t want to pay up for #LifeEsidimeni
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‘Families should be compensated for trauma, but not for what the deceased went through’, says state advocate.
The Gauteng provincial government’s resistance to paying Constitutional damages to the families who lost their loved ones in the Life Esidimeni tragedy, may be tied to the fear of accepting greater responsibility.
This follows a 2015 Gauteng health department decision to place almost 1700 former Life Esidimeni mental health patients in the care of deadly NGOs. While 144 have since died, a further 12 remain missing.
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Life Esidimeni families want R1.5m each for constitutional damage
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On top of the R200‚000 compensation for emotional shock‚ psychological injury and funeral expenses from the State‚ Life Esidimeni families want each claimant to receive R1.5-million for constitutional damage redress.
On Thursday‚ the Life Esidimeni arbitration convened for closing arguments in Parktown‚ Johannesburg. Though the two parties agreed on the emotional trauma claim under common law‚ in respect of the claim for constitutional damages‚ the State and Section 27 did not reach an agreement.
Section 27 Advocate Adila Hassim argued why the State should compensate the families for the violation of constitutional rights.
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