State of GP Health | Allegations of neglect at Helen Joseph Hospital

[@red_headed_goddess]

thumbs up to Mr. London for putting light on this disgusting and dehumanizing corruption

[@thobekiledlamini]

But people have been complaining for years, this is not new

[@red_headed_goddess]

@@thobekiledlamini yes...but nobody says this is new. In fact if you listen to the interview, the chap on the right says that people have been complaining for years and posting on social media...so it is not new. The more people complain the more it inspires activism to get the cogs of change working.

[@RitaEngelbrecht-f4y]

And the ANC health minister wants to change the whole system to be like this?

[@lindamckay2611]

There should be an investigation into all State Hospitals. I'm sure they're all the same 😢 people's lives are at stake.

[@kamigordon489]

And the clinics. They are torture

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

That's so TRUE 💔💔💔💔💔

[@carenvisser607]

I fully agree.

[@virginiathebe4714]

Mr London is speaking for the voiceless

[@ellahmashaba7263]

Atleast Mr London has a voice my daughter died due to hospital neglect in pholoso after the doctor said her case is not life threatening

[@ellahmashaba7263]

Unlike in pholoso she was treated well in Unitas I still cry at the cruelty she went through in pholoso . The nurses leave the patients in the care of cwp nurses and if they feel you annoy them they pump in wrong medication. I'm soo broken by this evil nurses who goes to work havoc with patients

[@catchingthemoon]

it's not just Gauteng it's the whole country.

[@normannorman5546]

I agree with you if you want to see horrible hospital come to Limpopo

[@gumanitheophilusmbedzi4825]

Limpopo has the most horrible hospitals ever

[@phindilemanana5840]

We need people like this guy.....our government is failing us they're busy renovating their homes at our expense.....shameless people talking about nhi now they want to use it to scoop more money for their own use😢😢😢

[@ellahmashaba7263]

Very true a nurse mocked my daughter instead of trying to find out what was the problem she just said , "sesi u na problem" soo evil now I lost my daughter im finding it strange that the government bpays people to treat poor people in a horrible manner private and public are on the same page​@@normannorman5546

[@ellahmashaba7263]

Public and private because no one ever do anything

[@Thatotherguy803]

I could only wish we could do what this guy did, but unfortunately, not everyone can just choose to walk away. My mother had cancer. She had to go to joburg Gen after the fire we also ended up at barra and Helen Joseph. My mother was in her late 70's. We found the same rude attitudes at all 3 hospitals. They don't even respect old people with a deadly sickness. When it's time for increases the unions are very fast to point out, these are our "mother's and sisters" but the reality is, they treat our parents and us like dirt in our time of need. These nurses and admin staff are shameless

[@Esther-ff4yh]

My daughter was treated in the worst way a month ago at that same hospital to the point that she feared for her life with the treatment she received from some of the nurses and one of the doctor's. Last week she went back for a follow-up appointment and as soon as she stepped inside the hospital, she was so scared and started getting anxious because she was thinking about what happened to her.Now every time we have to go back there she's gonna feel anxious , things really need to change.

[@mickeydangerez]

I would rather die in the street than visit any state hospital.

[@joberholzer1]

My father went in for an ulcer ... died. They say if you wanna die, go to Helen Joseph. Those docs have no empathy, they have to do state hospital visit and they get paid by the state as well - plus run a private practice.

[@alexburnside3741]

@@Thatotherguy803 My husband was at the Busa hospital in Gateway with cancer. He passed away early hours of the morning. I remember ,I was called. The nurse said he was restless i must come in. I rushed there maybe 10 min or max 15 min. He was gone. They lied he had died earlier, because he was so cold already. I was given the documents ..i waited for my family , then the funeral parlour to remove him. I didn't even get a call from the hospital or doctors. 😓M talking about a private hospital. Some of the doctors are fine. But I will never forget that day.💔

[@Thatotherguy803]

@alexburnside3741 I am sorry for your loss. I assume you have a medical ad, and this empowers you to never use that hospital again. The problem with public hospitals is that you get assigned to a hospital and a doctor, and you are stuck with them no matter how bad the situation gets. You are forced to accept being mistreated because you have no other option. Where with the private sector, you can simply opt for a second option. But don't have to be silent about what happened to you. Make it as public as you possibly can, find others who had the same experience. If it is something common, you won't have a hard time getting more support. This can cause a boycott of that hospital. That is the power the people have over private entities.

[@karthi7016]

Poor management at state hospitals have become a way of life. The unions are also to be held to account

[@nollythePhysio]

As a health professional in private, I know Helen Joseph has been going down hill for years, my own patients have shared this for years. I’m proud of this patient for speaking up 🙏🏾

[@carenvisser607]

Please investigate all gov hospitals...... Not just that one.!

[@lynpetzer2746]

SHOCKING ..SHOCKING...THEY DO NOT CARE..THIS HOSPITAL IS A DISGRACE.

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

Most hospitals are like that 👿👿

[@nicolenemarcus4080]

I am from Cape Town and I attend Groote Schuur for my lung problems and Tygerberg for my eye problems. I have never felt like a cockroach when dealing these public hospitals. Maybe the problem is only in Gauteng. Send those disrespectful doctors to Cape Town. We'll sort them out here!

[@edithmiller3114]

I agree with you about Groote Schuur and Tygerberg.....but my daughter had a terrible experience at Somerset Hospital....so it happens all over the country.

[@livinganddyingabroad]

I’ve also been very lucky in CT but I know stories of woman in labour with similar stories

[@Fikova24]

I agree the majority of hospitals I'm the Western Cape are really well run. My experience at Groote Schuur was better than at the Melomed I went to. I guess it depends on the Province you're in

[@judithnaude180]

Thank you for speaking out

[@Sally-AnnMartin-l9j]

All srate hospitals in gauteng are a disgrace, these hospitals were exceptionally well run before useless administrators were put in place. They dont even have hot water for patients to bathe. Disgusting

[@catchingthewind73]

It is not only Gauteng believe me, my brother has had similar experience in Heidelberg Hospital Western Cape. The lack of CARE is shocking. Inhumane.

[@janinekayser4837]

This is the case at ALL state hospitals. It is terrible the way patients are treated. I speak from experience.

[@cherylvandermeulen6897]

I really commend him for having the courage to stand up against this absolute poor health service. Where is the minister of health, another decay of government run services

[@heavyhookedup]

How much is it to fix a toilet, put a fresh coat of paint and have a basic sense of cleanliness. That is the easiest thing to do and will cost not even 0.0005% of the money stolen.

[@mickeydangerez]

Exactly

[@mookimoves9469]

True

[@Tokolos]

They just don't care.

[@ferozabismilla637]

They aren't allowed to do anything, until the new Tender is put forward 😮

[@Sifisomabanga]

Yah but there should be a tender issued first, while that toilet is leaking comrades are fighting for the tender....

[@candymthimkhulu5932]

I also had an extremely bad experience at Helen Joseph Hospital. I lost my husband there in 2013. All the nurses are so ruthless and its been going on and on nothing will change. I could have left him die at home in my hands than letting die in such a place. Its like i threw him in a can of worms. Its a trauma in my life. Thank you Tom for being so brave.😢😢😢

[@Bluecollarjoe6B9]

And they want NHI

[@lindalauragouws4703]

No alligations. The truth 😮😮😮😮

[@gracybotha1791]

Poor Management whats going on?????

[@leannesampson3199]

Public Health in Gauteng, and South Africa in general, is COMPLETELY DISFUNCTIONAL & BROKEN!!

[@JeshuaOurGod]

Lesufi must GO!!!

[@sburger1146]

The ANC has low standards and mismanage funds. More people must share videos.

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

For sure 😂😂

[@RianRian-em2ng]

People must stand up or it will not stop but the upper won't go to that hospitals

[@RubaJust]

Facts!!

[@marydooling2743]

So sad... Most nurses are just there to earn a salary with no compassion ❤

[@petroguilherme5549]

Not all ...

[@marydooling2743]

@@petroguilherme5549 yes I agree... Not every one, my apologies

[@gssrustenburg]

This is how the anc wants all hospitals through their "national health insurance" It is time no politician should be allowed into private hospitals, they should be forced to make use of state hospitals. Then we will see how fast the quality will improves.

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

You can say this loud and clear, then maybe we'll see change coming 😢😢

[@petroguilherme5549]

Absolutely

[@livinganddyingabroad]

In the uk politicians use the nhs

[@denzelmogabe3081]

💯

[@jajistam8798]

Nothing has changed since I was traumatised there 5 years ago even though I reported it to HQ in down town Jhb😢

[@khensanisylvia7098]

That hospital is a disaster, I never wish to be taken to that hospital if ever I got sick,i was once brought there from work I stayed on the silver chairs from 9pm until they changed shifts the following morning without being attended, since I came with the drip from the hospital I'm working until the water was finished and started pumping my blood,I ended up discharging myself. That's one he'll of a hospital, the nurses are worse.

[@menzorams9702]

South Africans we are in big trouble just imagine nearly all provincial hospitals are like that now the ANC are more eager to destroy the private hospitals. We all quit about it they need to fix provincial hospitals before they introduce NHI.

[@Minetty]

Agreed 100%

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

Agree 💯💯💯💯

[@denzelmogabe3081]

Why are private hospitals well run and yet state hospitals are in shambles , l would imagine governments have a higher budget and can afford better healthcare

[@Jeweldee]

Yes you should be ashamed of yourselves ANC

[@brianhoar1085]

That's what happens when you put unqualified people in management positions - cadre employment!

[@danieboshoff235]

The last time hospitals funksion and was clean 1994

[@lailamanack4035]

who was allowed to use those hospitals?

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

I agree 💯 after 1994 with ANC government 🤑 things have changed from saving lives to loosing lives in state hospitals 😭😭😭😭

[@nomdeguerre247]

Also no foreigners abusing our healthcare system.

[@hxoodkidd5819]

NO CAP🤣

[@thobekiledlamini]

Yah cos only whites had hospital access, so now everyone is using it and overworked, and foreigners also

[@cathymcdowell5294]

South Rand needs investigating..they are cruel

[@lawrencegauti9108]

Get a white person and do vedio record you will see they will investigate very quickly as this one

[@samusicnewsmagazine]

They're all cruel. I was mistreated in Baragwaneth and Charlotte mxcebe Treated like I was in a concentration camp or jail not like a sick patient.

[@Whatdoumean15]

Exactly they should also investigate on Charlotte Maxeke and Zola Jabulani Hospital

[@cathyabrahamse1929]

Hello it's at every provincial hospital!!!in every part of South Africa going on for years!!! And now someone got it on social media its in the news, shameful. Our Education department and provincial hospitals are appalling.

[@lolliethompson1692]

I went to Bara last month to go for a gallbladder operation,they said will phone me in a week to give me a date I am still waiting is already 9th of September. I am in pain can't eat,I'm dizzy can't do my work. All government hospitals are sleg. Hulle wil niks doen Nie!!!!!!

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

We blame it on this ANC government 🤑💰🤑 they care about themselves and not even their own people 😭😭😭 they are bad 😞😔😞

[@marynadewet4634]

What about: I serve with compassion and competence.

[@cathymcdowell5294]

Why is it allowed to just go on and on when will this be fix ..anc to blame

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

Definitely 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@catchingthewind73]

It is not the only hospital where this lack of care has been experienced. Take, for instance, a distressing case at Steve Biko Memorial Hospital, where a patient with a suspected broken back lay unattended in the casualty ward for three days. Stories like these are not isolated incidents but part of a disturbing trend. Such experiences highlight the broader systemic issues in our hospitals, where patients often feel like mere numbers rather than human beings in need of care. But no matter the challenges our medical professionals face, the lack of fundamental care and compassion is unacceptable.

[@wendyeggleton1165]

Disgusting hospital my mother was taken there after a car accident. They kept her saying she had fractured ribs. She stayed a few days and I saw something was terribly wrong. I called an outside ambulance to fetch her and took her to another hospital. She had a ruptured spleen broken pelvis. This was more than 20 years ago, and this hospital was bad many years ago. Unfortunately my mother had the operation she needed at another private hospital and it was too late to save her life. I will never forgive the way they treated her at Helen Joseph hospital

[@denzelmogabe3081]

Am really sorry for your loss. Such a sad incident of many ones that state hospitals impose on our people . Really hurts to hear

[@gugulethuprecious6932]

you right same to me my boss took me to Flora clinic out off that Death Hole JJ

[@priscillalatchmiah7939]

They don't have blankets, sheets, pillows. What are they doing with the linen. STEALING.

[@lentongrovetrust5201]

Just another case of thank you ANC, I can just imagine what NHI will bring.

[@Debbie-m1c]

Wake up ministers

[@lordwickphophi6998]

ANC cadres are despicable!! I just don't know when will the majority of this country will come to their senses and get rid of ANC from government once and for all.

[@Whatdoumean15]

Please investigate on South Rand Hospital, Netcare, Charlotte Maxeke, Bara, Lilian Ngoyi Clinic and Zola Jabulani

[@denzelmogabe3081]

You mean investigating themselves 😂? We can only rid off such cadres by voting them out , as long as they are in power you can rest be assured nothing will happen . More people will continue to die

[@dithorisomohlabeng5612]

Investigate all state hospitals…start with Tembisa hospital!!!!

[@mookimoves9469]

So where is our health minister????? Campaigning for more of the same with NHI ....he should resign immediately!

[@jamescullen3768]

I would rather stay at home and die ...than go through there abuse

[@PePaGiesing]

Will something actually be done. My Dad was there. And all that is said is true. People are scared to go there. They go in...stay there for months. And then pass away. Patients are scared to complain. Because they get victimized by the Dr's and nurses.

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

Exactly 💯💯

[@johnknottenbelt2727]

I watched the eNCA report on the once great Helen Joseph Hospital with absolute dismay. I had an operation in that hospital in the early 1980s & the staff were caring, ethical & attentive. How can such an astute hospital fall into such a state of disgrace. Where is the oversight, both from the Minister of Health & that of the Hospitals. Surely this dereliction of duty should be rooted out & those involved charged & locked up. What is happening ? Where is the Hipocratic Oath which holds all Medical Practitioners to Account !

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

Yes 💯💯💯 We've seen videos so many times how patients and elderly people are being treated and slapped around, what a disgrace 😭😭😭😭😭

[@petroguilherme5549]

I think our president should clear his diary and start a state visit to all hospitals in SA ....not sending delegates. ..him himself ...wherever he is one hour tour unannounced

[@sizakelemahlakoe6758]

At Chris Hani hospital they don't even have curtains ,patients pee in front of us while i was visiting my aunt 😢 It is so filthy 🤧 😫

[@Minetty]

Disgusting! Where is the dignity and respect for the human race

[@Adri-oj3yt]

I've seen worse at a state hospital near the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. It's a disgrace.

[@annpappas9999]

Somerset Hospital

[@livinganddyingabroad]

The way they treat mothers during labour is disgusting I blv Mr London

[@ElsabeRezan]

Bloemfontein isn't far behind either! It's appalling!

[@rinky17888]

This is the work of Panyasa Lesufi the messiah and saviour of Gauteng and the ANC. In his mind in a few days everything will be forgotten.That exactly why the ANC got 40% votes . We don’t forget

[@karenj8406]

No respect for human dignity and life. So sad.

[@moonbeep641]

Gayton McKenzie and the PA raised the funds to move him to the Morningside Clinic.

[@wendyeggleton1165]

Thank you our Presiden Gayton

[@thobekiledlamini]

Lucky Tom, our families are lying in such hospital but no one raised a cent to move them to private hospital..one has to wonder

[@petroguilherme5549]

No funds from Gayton but members of PA ...we salute them ...mostly raised by his followers in FB and friend and family ..he is indeed lucky to have a great following which most people do not have

[@CarinaCatLove3]

"The Gauteng Department of Health has dismissed claims that its hospitals are in a poor state after a complaint about patients being treated like cockroaches at the Helen Joseph Hospital." "The Gauteng department of health says it is investigating allegations of mistreatment of patients by staff at the Helen Joseph Hospital." Obviously the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing 🤔

[@Tokolos]

it's the thought that counts with these clowns ))

[@valerianxumalo2845]

Bring back the old nurses on contract who still able to work they do better

[@NTHATENGMakinitaEmben]

Too late many people have passed on in that hospital Disgusting 😢😢😢

[@Itssophie277]

Investigate all the hospitals including Steve biko

[@RianRian-em2ng]

Sabc go look for you're self

[@wendysamanthasadaldeen5458]

I agree go visit each government clinic and hospitals not to mention governmental place like home affairs etc... there where government is in charge its a disgrace

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

​@@wendysamanthasadaldeen5458yes yes yes 😭😭😭😭😭

[@hxoodkidd5819]

THEY WONT THAT PLACE HAS A SMELL THAT WILL STICK TO YOU 🤮 TELL THEM TO ENTER AT CASUALTY 🤣 IT WIL BE A VERY SHORT VISIT.

[@wendysamanthasadaldeen5458]

@@hxoodkidd5819 lol true

[@bertmoodley3888]

Check the hospital s and clinics please so sad .

[@thewatcher8345]

It's not poor care or neglect, it's pure evil and murder.....

[@cliffordgrobler]

Give mr. London a Bells, a double bells

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

Yes 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 very brave of him ❤❤❤❤

[@samusicnewsmagazine]

I personally suffer from PTSD from Baragwaneth where I too checked myself out like Tom, fearing for my life.

[@kobusvanderwesthuizen9648]

And the ANC think the NHI will work when such mismanagement is happening now???

[@heathercloete7450]

Government ministers need to give up their private medical aids. They need to only use Government hospitals and experience for themselves just how disgusting the treatment, facilities and food are. I speak from experience.

[@petroguilherme5549]

Yes yes and yes esp the ones in the health department

[@jeanlester3737]

Jhb Gen and edenvale are filthy. I was in both during covid.

[@ntombi3171]

Edenvale hospital keeps you for a week to die. If you survive, that's will be the ony time you receive medical attention. It's a slaughter house! Sies😮

[@Arti-iChi]

Doctors and nurses generally have only entered the profession for money... even in private hospitals there is an absolute lack of empathy for patients...I saw how my mom was told she had cancer and the doctor just walked away after telling her and we she was in excruciating pain calling out for someone to help her she was ignored...and this was a private hospital in Cape Town. I didn't complain because I didn't want her to further be treated badly if I complained

[@kamomagaret5169]

😢

[@Linston-y5v]

Disgraceful!!! Waited about 10 hours before the doctor saw to me. Some doctors & nurses are just there for a salary - no care for patients. Was placed in a broken bed in the ward, was taken down to theater from 7th floor with a bed sheet around me, No gowns, No hairnets. Was taken in the theater while they were still cleaning. Doctors was NOT properly dressed but started with procedure. Student doctor gave me the wrong injection but claimed that it was antibiotic - almost died on the op table. But they don't care. Physical state & hygiene of Helen Joseph Hospital is appalling. Hope government really does something soon.

[@petroguilherme5549]

Same is happening at private hospitals ....profit driven with no compassion

[@JeshuaOurGod]

Please come and investigate St Augustines hospital in Durban as well! Lots of corruption here and poor service delivery

[@priscillalatchmiah7939]

Send the inspectors to check.

[@leannesampson3199]

What inspectors?!

[@denzelmogabe3081]

You mean anc inspectors😢😂😂😂

[@fleurgace8664]

I don't understand why this is such a shock....in 2003 it was already an absolute disaster. Doctors amputating the incorrect limbs....patients not being fed, bloodiest gurney, no wheelchairs, used needles all over filthy floors no clean linen.....you go to these places to die,......

[@SuritaFlippe]

True very bad. Its at STEVE BICKO do the same.THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR US..!!!!

[@CatherineR1971]

Louis Theroux needs to do a documentary on this !

[@ninaosborne2004]

This is what it is like after 30 years of ANC rule. The ANC should be utterly ashamed of itself. Did this happen in hospitals 35 to 40 years ago? Please enlighten me. The ANC is always going to do everything, but it ends up in a useless nothing. Entitled doctors and nursing staff should also realize that they are not little gods; they are just normal people, nothing more and nothing less. Their salaries are paid by patients, so patients should be calling the shots, not them.

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

I agree 💯💯💯💯 with you 💯💯💯💯

[@LavanaSingh-el1ct]

OUR GOVERNMENT AND HEALTH MINISTER IS IN A FANTASY WORLD THINKING .NHI WILL WORK😂😂😂😂

[@catchingthemoon]

they don't need it to work they just want to get their hands on the money. nothing needs to work , they just want the money.

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

I agree with you 💯💯💯💯

[@moonbeep641]

This is not an allegation. It's fact with live video evidence.

[@Intothelight1981]

This is Africa. We are pleading with individuals who have zero integrity and who are morally bankrupt. It will never happen. This is how the liberators have liberated.

[@mapitsorangaka1030]

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah, enough is enough.

[@Ritesh-yy1zr]

They were never ready to run the cuntry

[@denzelmogabe3081]

No one any where in the world is ever ready but here it’s Stealing public funds with impunity, getting away with it because they are in leadership we voted them , asking a thug to investigate himself after a robbery 😂😂😂

[@izasmith]

I did my training at this hospital in the 80's. A top proud hospital. How sad to see this now. May this open the eyes of of the people. ❤

[@zakhelesibiya7590]

is our daily life my friend, poor top management, that is why I will vote for Tom London's friends to run this thing next time

[@wendysamanthasadaldeen5458]

Oh off course millions like Mr. London no doubt. Yet Drs & Nurses are without jobs. My dad has to get surgery hes not going, why? He was not helped for 2 days of driving up and down, hes a pensioner and they dont care and so rude like we owe them something. This is not new. Better management, more staff, better education on bedside manners just to start off with.

[@SylviaMitchell-tz2sl]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@Justmichs]

The angels in our hospitals can only work as far as their utilities and equipment extends to them. Changing a person sitting in his fecal matter or a little bit of drinking water does not take facilities it takes human decency.

[@IngridHarrington-s5f]

My mum was in & out of Helen Joseph over a period of 5 painful years. Admitted every time her lungs filled with fluid. On one of these occasions I had to use the ladies bathroom. The nursing sister told me 'I cant allow you to use the toilet because I know you wont sit but will stand in there & we dont have a mop'. I asked why a ward does not have a mop. Her response was that the government has no money to buy mops. I left my very ill mom there for a moment & went out of the Helen Joseph Hospital precinct & across the road to a house & asked if I could use the toilet. Thankfully I was kindly allowed... I always dreaded those occasions when my mum had to go in. Wouldn't use the bathrooms because they were always out of order & filthy & this despite the hospital employing cleaning staff..

[@handcraftprojects3508]

And they want NHI??

[@Debbie-m1c]

If the head of the hospital not right. The ones below don't care..

[@YAHsprincess75]

I went into labour at Chris Hani Bara, as my baby was about to be born I called the nurses but they ignored me.I then gave birth on my own, they rushed to my bed as soon as they realised that I stopped crying...they came as I was bending over forwards to reach for my baby at the end of the bed.

[@hannah-7-8]

The state of Helen Joseph has been in a downward spiral for years. The emergency area is filthy. When changing a drip or taking blood in the emergency area, the dirty floor is often used as a table !! Does not take Einstein to use a medical bowl instead of the floor if no table nearby. Baragwanath Hospital follows the same downward spiral. Rahima Moosa is disgusting to name a few. Many of the government medical institutions are disgusting and patients are treated with disdain. Seen patients in the Helen Joseph emergency area who have to wait for days before being admitted to a ward given food with no utensils and patients have to eat with their hands...hands that have not been washed!! This is just the tip of the iceberg. No wonder patients are getting worse or are dying like flies. The government cannot even fix or run the medical institutions properly. It is corruption at the highest level! And they want to have NHI. Absolute resolving NO to NHI !!. The governing powers need their house in order to serve the people not serve their pockets and then point the finger outward to distract from what they are doing and brainwash the masses.

[@hxoodkidd5819]

That hospital stinks 24/7. I live close by the hospital , patients normally take 24hours to see a doctor. The people that say this hospital is clean are messed up or that's how their houses looks and smell you'll nasty. Go there now as a normal person and walk true the wards not just one ward but all wards see the process how you get handled by the nurses to the doctors go see the state of the beds the floor and toilets. I remember last year I went with a friend to go visit a family member at Helen J.H at the time it was already smelling like human fece (pooh & pee , ens.). Then we saw the cleaner came to clean the toilet closet to us. The smell that came from that toilet made us get up and leave , it was like the cleaning woke up a dead sleeping smell worse smell I ever smelled in my life worse then the smell of death. Don't let people tell you that place is clean don't be fooled go see for yourself , seeing is believing.

[@danissdorris9195]

I did experience that . On February end 2024, Mu brother was admitted on Friday morning at about 11am . in Far East Hospital in springs. When I reach there on Sunday 7 mp. Third day at the hospital. I was shoked. My brother's bed was at a passage. When I ask the staff where is mr ...., they pointed at him. I hear his voice sreaming. He was on tereble pain. Since Friday until I reach there Sunday evening,he was sreaming every 2mnts. I asepted him to be at the passege, I thought maybe the ward is full. But surprisingly,his wife went to visit him on Tuesday, she was with a freind. That freind of her was a social worker, so the stuff so them coming and they run to move my brother from the passege the ward before they reach there. And they start working on him like never before.

[@bernedettespadoni8369]

Our people rather want to die with respect at home instead of been treated without respect.

[@dsbuthelezi3944]

That's true.

[@Debbie-m1c]

True alll state hospitals are in dispair... Stinks floors dirty. Toilets smells while we waiting for our files ..this is a absolute disgrace on the minister part...minister go step out walk around visit the toilets you'll get knocked out.

[@mickeydangerez]

We are investigating ourselves and found we did nothing.

[@mikemike8374]

Get people that want to do the job they are incompetent and thinking they do patients a favor

[@berylbobbert3107]

In kraaifontein is exactly the same the staff is are extremely rude especially to the old people... all you have to is to go home feeling so bad, when you return you get ignored totally... they mark you and you treated like worse than a dog... the security is charge in placing the people in which place to go, even if you just come and get medication you stand for hours outside, if you come see doctor it's even worse, the staff is so lazy the security guard tells you what to do and where to go.

[@dvorster5646]

It's so scary and sad how everything as in everything in South Africa is disintegrating!All our professional doctors are overseas, and we're left with the end of the month salty crax!

[@leannesampson3199]

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[@nancysharaunga3684]

That's true they treat people very bad

[@Lorna-be7qp]

It's not only Helen Joseph it is most of the public health service hospitals in South Africa it's a disgrace from the doors of the hospital all the way to the professors horror stories every day it's horrible they'll call you send you home come back next month it's like every one working at the public hospitals are doing voluntary work but the fact of the matter is that they are all well taken care of with a lovely salary and a lot of benefits to boot... Thank you for bringing this problem I'm sorry sir this rubbish is rife in all the hospitals no dignity no compassion no dedication to sir it's all the hospitals please stop trying to pretend that it's only Helen Joseph absolutely not!!!!!!!!