Boy with broken arm waits for assistance from hospital
Anel van Staden (37) claims her son, C-jay van Staden (7), waited at the Far East Rand Hospital with a broken arm for almost seven hours, without assistance from hospital staff.
Anel rushed C-jay to the hospital on Sunday evening, after the boy had fallen off a jungle gym and hurt his arm.
On arrival at 6pm, Anel filled in a file for C-jay and then they were told to wait for assistance.
Eventually, at midnight, the boy was given medication for the pain.
C-jay was placed in a ward after 22 hours of waiting on a chair, claims Anel.
Isabel Gillmer (52), grandmother to C-jay, says: “To wait such a long time for any assistance is unacceptable, the boy was in immense pain.”
The doctor saw C-jay only three days after he was admitted to hospital claims Anel.
“I didn’t know if he needed to go in for an operation, since I had not seen a doctor,” she says.
The hospital’s communications manager, Hendrik Buda, has commented, saying the child arrived at 8.10pm and was seen by a doctor, who had ordered that X-rays be done.
“While waiting for a bed the child was on treatment,” he says.
Anel is angry that her son had to wait so long for any medical assistance, especially since he was in a lot of pain.
