On a recent day, Indira Govender, a doctor in a rural community in northern KwaZulu-Natal, was busy with her weekly session at the local clinic when she witnessed three people breaking down mentally.
There wasnt an ambulance to take the patients to hospital, which was what clinic guidelines say should have happened.
But Govender says that day wasnt a system failure. Find out why not.
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Sometimes, inexplicably, at clinics or hospitals theres a spike in the number of people arriving in a state of breakdown or disconnect from reality.