Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi says a Johannesburg hospital must approach the high court to save the life of a 15-year-old boy who needs a liver transplant but his family refuses to allow blood transfusion for the procedure on religious grounds.
Motsoaledi described the incident which is unfolding at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital as unfortunate, stating that there was no way a liver transplant will ever be done without blood transfusion because the teenager is going to bleed.
I am going to phone Charlotte Maxeke and ask them because they must go to court if they really want to save that child, Motsoaledi said.
