Grandfather furious about treatment
There were no beds available in the casualty ward.
The grandfather of a girl who fainted at school was disgusted with the Far East Rand Hospital (FERH) when there was no bed available in the casualty ward.
Nick Boeyens from Persidia says his granddaughter, Mirka Swart (15), was transported by ambulance on Thursday at around 11am to the FERH.
Mirka fainted at Hoërskool Hugenote and could not walk.
It was later diagnosed that this was a stress-related condition.
Boeyens says she was kept on the ambulance’s stretcher in casualties department while he had to run around to get a hospital file opened for the child.
One of the hospital administrative assistants told him, after he had already waited for half an hour to be helped, that he had to wait in a row of about 60 people to get a file.
No one wanted to speak to him nor help him get medical attention for the child.
According to Boeyens there was also no bed available in casualties and the paramedic, on whose stretcher Mirka was lying, threatened to leave the girl on the hospital floor.
It was at that point that Boeyens took the child to a hospital in Delmas to get medical attention.
Here Mirka received treatment for what was regarded as a stress-related illness.
The Addie had received no comment from the hospital at the time of going to the press.
