No linen is not the reason
"The service is so bad at the facility. It's been three weeks I'm just lying here, waiting for an operation which is always postponed at the last minute."
MBOMBELA – He thought that being involved in a car accident was the worst nightmare he has ever had to go through, but after the treatment at Rob Ferreira Hospital, he said worst did not even begin to describe his ordeal.
The 28-year-old man who wished to remain anonymous told Mpumalanga News that he was disappointed by the way he was handled at the hospital where he was admitted after the accident.
“The service is so bad at the facility. It’s been three weeks I’m just lying here, waiting for an operation which is always postponed at the last minute because apparently there is a shortage of clean linen,” said the livid man.
He further said that at some point there was an operation planned for May 8, but when the nurses were supposed to prepare him for theatre he was told they would have to do it some other time because there was no clean linen.
Spokesperson for the health department, Mr Dumisani Malamule said it was true that operations as part of Operation Letsema were postponed, but not due to lack of linen.
“The operations were postponed to allow patients who had not been included on the list to be added.
The province has a serious shortage of orthopaedic surgeons hence the intervention by the department to try and assist a large number of patients who have been awaiting surgery.
Rob Ferreira has enough linen and service delivery has improved a lot,” said Malamule.
