Unsupervised, unstructured, non-standardised, unsafe, and altogether substandard. This is how the health ombuds report at the end of July described care at two public hospitals in the Northern Cape last year.
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Unsupervised, unstructured, non-standardised, unsafe, and altogether substandard.
This is how the health ombuds report at the end of July described the care four patients received at the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and Northern Cape Mental Health hospitals in Kimberley last year.