Cancer patient Thato Moncho was left to fight for her life with the help of an oxygen machine after falling off a list of patients waiting for radiation treatment from the Gauteng health department.
Sowetan has followed Monchos story from her diagnosis with breast cancer in 2020 to when two NGOs took the department to court for its failure to develop and implement a plan to address the oncology backlogs in the province.
Since then, Moncho has had three operations, and in May last year, she was taken off the waiting list as her cancer had progressed to the point where she had to rely on an oxygen tank to breathe.