Note to self, when you have a problem with state owned facilities, go live on camera and make sure you expose, leave no stone unturned and see what happens. Lesson learnt, thank you Mr Tom
I would also signed out of the hospital!!! His life might be in danger after he exposed the attitude of people that should be professional. This is exactly what the NHI is going to be turned into!!!! Shocking behavior to not even acknowledge a patient and treat patients with conten!!!!
They made my mother starve at the hospital. My mother could not eat and feed herself. I was working a job who never allowed me to leave during the day to Visit my mother. So I could see my mother only during the weekends. My mother died , the lady who slept across my mother told me that the nurses would leave the food for my mother and never feed her . She died due to low sugar and obviously not being fed to keep her sugar levels up. The nurses don't care , the doctors are worst. They have no compassion or even care. They never used to help mu mother bath. She had stage 4 cancer to her brain . I used to clean her on a Saturday and Sunday. The staff used to be nasty to me when I complained. They had no care . Those nurses who never fed my mother , never bath her , those doctors who never helped her . Her death is on their shoulders.
Look at the comments on all of Tom London posts, many people’s relatives died from lack of care and lack of respect and lack of everything. This guy in this interview mentions “poor people “ going to govt hospitals, not everyone at a govt hospital is poor , they simply don’t have medical aid for whatever reason or minimum R120000 lying around .
Yup that was my situation as I didnt have a medical aid at the time of my heart attack and I certainly didn’t have 100k just to be admitted to ICU at a private hospital.
When a patient enters the Hospital,they should all be treated with dignity and compassion,as this is what your medical professionals ie.. Dr's,Nurses,Admin ext have sworn an oath to do.. This is not the first time these things have happened.Many patients been treated at Government Hospitals unprofessional, sometimes downright cruel..Employ Nursing Staff that know the meaning of being a nurse..Stop finding excuses for the unacceptable behaviour of your Medical Staff,at Government Hospitals
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
I also use the state hospital facilities, I have no problem with the hospitals in Bloemfontein, especially Universitas, the treat me well and I take my hat off to the nursing staff, however once I had an altercation with a very rude staff member, I however reminded that person that the taxpayer pay their salary and the fact that I payed taxes for 42 years certainly entitle me to a degree of curticy not rudeness. My request for a certain service from her was in no way disrespectful, bedbound I needed something done that I could not do for myself. The attitude was that I was wasting her time, no she was there to deliver a service to patients that cannot fend for themselves. She tried to gaslit me, but without loosing my dignity I made sure that the correct message was send, we cannot all afford medical aid and have to use state facilities, state facilities is funded by taxpayer money of which I was one for 42 years. I deserve to be treated with dignity.
@RitaEngelbrecht-f4y I am glad you got treated well. I would also be lying if I said everyone was rude. There were really some good people who really cared and wanted to help. Unfortunately, in my experience with my mother, the majority of the people we interacted with were not the good and kind types. What breaks my heart is that my mother brought me up to respect people older than me, and so I have and believe in most our black families. This is the case. But it doesn't seem that most of these nurses were brought up with these same values. Disrespecting a woman who could be the age of most of their grandmother's.
You don't need a smile campaign only, you need a fundamental shift and MASSIVE MAINTENANCE!! It is also time to lay complaints in front of the World Court as these are crimes against humanity.
My question is why do they react to poor service and conditions only after people complain? Why don't they maintain facilities and good relations between patient and staff all the time?
The state of the hospital is disgusting and that smile campaign is stupid and useless. If anything, the attitude of the workers at HJ will worsen when this saga dies down.
The sad thing is a lot of people have similar if not more horrific tales about the state hospitals and medical facilities and they just don't know of a better service so they take it as it is. Tom was just unfortunate enough to trend when voicing his concerns, cause this has created a target on his back
Why are they acting like they don't know. It's been public knowledge for years. These people are either out of touch with the people they are supposed to be servicing or they don't care. It's not only Helen Joseph, all public facilities are like this
Most government hospitals and clinics are run down. Too much staff not maintaining their environment. This all occurred under the government of the anc.
Before 1994 the hospitals were managed by experienced matrons,today CEO,s who is drs is running hospitals,after 1994 the nursing course changed with the result this poor nurses with more book knowledge,only hours of experience,these new nurses are too full of themselves due to poor training and bad examples,getting rid of experience staff,climbing
A year or 2 ago - Helen Joseph was without water. The Gift of the Givers paid for and installed a borehole etc to give them water.... No word of thanks or recognition from ANC but they sure as hell knew about this...
Take a look at Yusuf Dadoo as well. Shockingly dirty and the nursing staff have a major attitude. The toilets are disgusting and no toilet paper. How did things get so bad?
BEE is the problem.its just n job and not passion.big pay cheque for management without doing what the job description states.all government institutions have the worst service ever.
Mr Mazibuko nurses should not be protected when they display unprofessional rude behaviour endangering the lives of goggos, poor people, the docile, the uncomplaining etc
You got to love social media once something goes viral then everyone wants to jump around ( tom needs to give the names of all those unqualified doctors we want them fired
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.
I agree. I was at a Netcare (I would much rather not say which one) a few years ago and by then everything had dropped. Like a lift on free fall. An older lady in a bed in my hospital room repeatedly called for help at night, and the nurses ignored her. You could hear them talking in the nurses station. The next day, I demanded to see the Matron. I ripped those nurses to shreds. These nurses we have are heartless. Don't look for a Florence Nightingale in South African hospitals, they don't exist. Work ethic has eroded. The culture of indifference has spread from the public sector to the private sector. I have no problem with telling people off to their faces. None. I don't care who they are, or think they are. Private hospitals today, are light years away from where they were a couple of decades ago. My dad was admitted a few times at this same hospital over 25 years ago and he was assigned a male nurse to care for him. His care was exemplary. The staff were incredible throughout. The Specialist unfortunately, was an absolute, heartless doos. He cared more about billing. Yes, private hospitals weren't as busy then as they are today because fewer people had medical aid, but that should not be an excuse! The culture of our country and people throughout South Africa needs a revamp. Starting right at the top, from our out of touch, indifferent President. Our public hospitals were good during apartheid. Well run, clean, fulfilled its role. Today, they're a hell hole.
@@Thatotherguy803Everywhere - poor staffing could leave you quite DEAD to the tune of thousands. State is infinitely worse - choice is either really bad or worse - take your pick!.
@@khanyi_zulu I know what I'm talking about,I use to work at Life healthcare,I went there as a patient,most of the staff working there are agency staff and they dont care.
Despite the state and it's well-known incompetence, it begs the question as to what kind of people the medical schools are churning out - there seems to be a complete lack of humanity amongst the doctors and nurses. Yes, the circumstances under which they must work might be horrible but when do they start saying "enough is enough" and change it? They swore an oath my goodness!
Mr Mazibuko he's on the defensive mode stop that, nurses were suppose to make sure that those are taken before knocking what's the policy of nursing, nurses they don't care they will tell you if you want care have medical aid they talk any they don't care of our feelings
Start by cell phones at there jobs they running the passeges witn their cellphines busy on them nit interest in the etiket about their jobs and they rude to lasy to do their jobs if you repremant them they refuse to deliver service to pasient
Bs he died and was left their for 20min by the time the video was taken so now they waiting for the next shift to come on to remove the body , he died of neglect on your shift you had to treat him with dignity and have his body removed on your shift this guy sounds like a fool . He was laying there with his mouth open they didn't even have the decency to cover him up these government hospitals are in a state we have unqualified DRS and Nurses South africa is in deep deep trouble You go into these government hospitals and you don't come out alive 35 years old and dying from neglect absolutely disgusting heads need to role
batho pele for you😂 along with its visions and missions😮 thats when this rot started. All the good nurses are retired or have left nursing. They are only there for the salary.nothing else
Many of our nurses were head hunted by British hospitals. I had a colleague whose wife left one of our public hospitals in the early 2000's after a heavy recruitment drive by the UK for SA healthcare staff. The wheat has been separated from the chaff .... We've been hollowed out in every sector. The only loyal South Africans are our sports men and women despite the hardship over the years. Unfortunately, people can't feed their families on "loyal to state"... their families come first. We understand that. Things need to change, yesterday. Our current Minister of Health reigned over this same portfolio before and like those before him, he stood by and allowed it to fall into further ruin. Today the 🤡 is punting NHI! Yet another feeding trough for the comrades!
Tom said in his time at the Helen Joseph he saw around 80 ( short staffed?)doctors pass through the ward and could count on one hand those who showed empathy and care.
Minister of Health used to be Minister of Health before he became Minister of Home Affairs. A useless person that leaves everything he's touched in a worse condition than he found it in. The comrades need to be removed. Period. South Africans appear to love being treated poorly... voting the same uncaring scourge in again and again.
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 !
@@johnknottenbelt2727 Yes , it used to be the J G Strijdom Hospital. My sons were born there and I also trained as nurse there. Used to be a stunning well functional hospital and 30 years later ...... DESTROYED by the ANC!!!
Just more excuses whose responsibility it is to move a deceased patient. Excuses excuses excuses enough excuses. How about some accountability. It would make such a difference to public opinion.
Exactly, stop these fake rhetorics/slogans and do proper patient care without being forced, we are already getting paid for it through taxpayer funding. Problem is someone is deciding what individual institutions must do, instead of institutional managers determining what their institutions should do to improve and deliver a better service at those points of care.
As a medic that takes patients to government hospitals, I can tell you that this man does not know what he's talking about. Very few nursing staff are actually there to help, and those that do help us as medics have known us for years, being in the medical field together and thus assisting with patients that need urgent assistance. It's about time that people are held accountable for their lack of empathy towards patients. No one is holding a gun to their head and forcing them to work at a facility that has nothing in place, from proper disposable medical items to proper functioning equipment. If you choose to work there, you can still treat a person with dignity. Start fighting for the right reasons, mainly proper allocations of funding for the facility that you work at so that it's properly stocked and has the proper equipment to manage your sick patients. Stop sitting in tea rooms the whole day and chatting to your colleagues about your personal issues. Start caring for your patients and if you can't do that, then leave the profession and stop stealing our money because it's our tax that is paying your salary!!!
health departments and hospitals is major medical centers big problems DA minister Mr Jack Bloom brought it up on other news outlets nothing is happening go to hillbrow community center hospital rooms 13 black lady doctor does not even come out of room door closed patients sitting outside on bench when is your turn to go inside dont even check on ne looks at chart and tell me to cone back on this day there is some good doctors here that's helpful asks you question take our temperature want a history of what up not room 13 i stopped going to centre I'm a pensioner
What is wrong with nurses and Drs in this country, some of them it seems like they hate their jobs and are forced to work as health professions. Even at shops like checkers or spar .. they not friendly, they seem to drag their feet when it comes to helping you at a counter, for example.. it's like they don't really want to be helping shoppers.. it's mind blogging that their attitudes are just off putting..WHY?
Why are the officials acting as if this is a new thing? That hospital is a hell hole where patients go to die. The building is falling apart and is filthy. The staff are rude and uncaring and treat you worse than a dog. These officials live in a bubble ‘cause they go to private hospitals and their children go to private schools. If they and their family were forced to go to a hospital with dirty toilets, rats, filthy floors and walls that are literally falling apart, they would take action.
We had a similar near death and poor treatment experience at Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital in Vosloosrus and when we made a written complaint they brushed us off without even reading our complaint before attending the redress meeting. It saddens me that our government hospital staff have declined to this level of disdain towards their patients. My wife was nearly killed due to an overdose and thereafter treated with utter distain by the nurses in ward12 when informing the ICU doctor after which she was treated very badly to a point that she feared for her life and begged me to take her home in fear. A very difficult experience indeed.
In the midst of an overwhelmed and often underfunded healthcare system, one might expect compassion, empathy, and basic human decency to remain constants. Yet, the glaring lack of care displayed by some doctors today is deeply troubling, and it raises an urgent question: How did we get to a point where the very people entrusted with our health and well-being can so often seem indifferent or even callous? 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.
Its not only poor people, you all liar's this has been going on for years in all province's,go do the ground work yourself and see,there is a hand full of dedicated nurses left,the rest on there cell phones including security officers. Appalling
The complainaint was not complaining about the nursing staff. He said that they were very good, and helpful. The Drs and the actual building maintenance, the compassion was addressed.
And that gives them the right to be rude and heartless towards people who are in need of their help? Sick people? People who might not live without it?
Note to self, when you have a problem with state owned facilities, go live on camera and make sure you expose, leave no stone unturned and see what happens. Lesson learnt, thank you Mr Tom
Please repost and repost...ENOUGH!!!
Tom London we appreciate you bringing this to light you have made this happen and it's a lesson this will go down in history
I would also signed out of the hospital!!! His life might be in danger after he exposed the attitude of people that should be professional. This is exactly what the NHI is going to be turned into!!!! Shocking behavior to not even acknowledge a patient and treat patients with conten!!!!
They made my mother starve at the hospital. My mother could not eat and feed herself. I was working a job who never allowed me to leave during the day to Visit my mother. So I could see my mother only during the weekends. My mother died , the lady who slept across my mother told me that the nurses would leave the food for my mother and never feed her . She died due to low sugar and obviously not being fed to keep her sugar levels up. The nurses don't care , the doctors are worst. They have no compassion or even care. They never used to help mu mother bath. She had stage 4 cancer to her brain . I used to clean her on a Saturday and Sunday. The staff used to be nasty to me when I complained. They had no care . Those nurses who never fed my mother , never bath her , those doctors who never helped her . Her death is on their shoulders.
Look at the comments on all of Tom London posts, many people’s relatives died from lack of care and lack of respect and lack of everything.
This guy in this interview mentions “poor people “ going to govt hospitals, not everyone at a govt hospital is poor , they simply don’t have medical aid for whatever reason or minimum R120000 lying around .
Yup that was my situation as I didnt have a medical aid at the time of my heart attack and I certainly didn’t have 100k just to be admitted to ICU at a private hospital.
Well he signed him self out he's chest operation is around R600000.
When a patient enters the Hospital,they should all be treated with dignity and compassion,as this is what your medical professionals ie.. Dr's,Nurses,Admin ext have sworn an oath to do..
This is not the first time these things have happened.Many patients been treated at Government Hospitals unprofessional, sometimes downright cruel..Employ Nursing Staff that know the meaning of being a nurse..Stop finding excuses for the unacceptable behaviour of your Medical Staff,at Government Hospitals
It has been happening for years, unfortunately
Yes! These conditions, as difficult as they may be, cannot justify a complete disregard for the basics of human decency.
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
I also use the state hospital facilities, I have no problem with the hospitals in Bloemfontein, especially Universitas, the treat me well and I take my hat off to the nursing staff, however once I had an altercation with a very rude staff member, I however reminded that person that the taxpayer pay their salary and the fact that I payed taxes for 42 years certainly entitle me to a degree of curticy not rudeness. My request for a certain service from her was in no way disrespectful, bedbound I needed something done that I could not do for myself. The attitude was that I was wasting her time, no she was there to deliver a service to patients that cannot fend for themselves. She tried to gaslit me, but without loosing my dignity I made sure that the correct message was send, we cannot all afford medical aid and have to use state facilities, state facilities is funded by taxpayer money of which I was one for 42 years. I deserve to be treated with dignity.
@RitaEngelbrecht-f4y I am glad you got treated well. I would also be lying if I said everyone was rude. There were really some good people who really cared and wanted to help. Unfortunately, in my experience with my mother, the majority of the people we interacted with were not the good and kind types. What breaks my heart is that my mother brought me up to respect people older than me, and so I have and believe in most our black families. This is the case. But it doesn't seem that most of these nurses were brought up with these same values. Disrespecting a woman who could be the age of most of their grandmother's.
You don't need a smile campaign only, you need a fundamental shift and MASSIVE MAINTENANCE!! It is also time to lay complaints in front of the World Court as these are crimes against humanity.
My question is why do they react to poor service and conditions only after people complain? Why don't they maintain facilities and good relations between patient and staff all the time?
Because they have stolen all the money. For 30 years things have gone down hill.
Thank you 100 % with 30 years these hospitals should be shining with money put into continuously maintain and improve? Where is all this money?
The state of the hospital is disgusting and that smile campaign is stupid and useless.
If anything, the attitude of the workers at HJ will worsen when this saga dies down.
The sad thing is a lot of people have similar if not more horrific tales about the state hospitals and medical facilities and they just don't know of a better service so they take it as it is. Tom was just unfortunate enough to trend when voicing his concerns, cause this has created a target on his back
No it's not sad its cowing on for years my man
The female doctors are more concerned about their nails and hair and what they are wearing .
Why are they acting like they don't know. It's been public knowledge for years. These people are either out of touch with the people they are supposed to be servicing or they don't care. It's not only Helen Joseph, all public facilities are like this
Xoli makes it a point to do absolutely no research,and He makes sure He knows as little as possible about he subject He is discussing.
Steer clear of nurses dripping in jewellery ,high heels ,tight skirts and wigs
I think most people go into the profession for the sake of salary; it's not so much about helping patients.
You must be referring to yourself and your family members
Most government hospitals and clinics are run down. Too much staff not maintaining their environment. This all occurred under the government of the anc.
Darn right. Before ANC all the government run entities worked and were run very very well. Now nothing works
"Worried"?! Don't make me laugh. They know exactly what's going on.
Before 1994 the hospitals were managed by experienced matrons,today CEO,s who is drs is running hospitals,after 1994 the nursing course changed with the result this poor nurses with more book knowledge,only hours of experience,these new nurses are too full of themselves due to poor training and bad examples,getting rid of experience staff,climbing
A year or 2 ago - Helen Joseph was without water. The Gift of the Givers paid for and installed a borehole etc to give them water.... No word of thanks or recognition from ANC but they sure as hell knew about this...
Take a look at Yusuf Dadoo as well. Shockingly dirty and the nursing staff have a major attitude. The toilets are disgusting and no toilet paper. How did things get so bad?
I would also most definitely have signed out gosh !!!
BEE is the problem.its just n job and not passion.big pay cheque for management without doing what the job description states.all government institutions have the worst service ever.
YES BEEEEEE CAUSED ALL THIS LOW QUALITY CARE!!!!
We need accountability. Not denial. Not excuses.
Sounds like the nurses failed in their duties after the death of that poor man. Thats the bottom line .
They're immune to any human compassion.
Wow
The future of NHI!!! 😂😂😂
O my word blame game is ANC politics
DON'T TRY AND MAKE EXCUSES FOR THIS UTTER SHAME !!!!!😮😮😮
The deceased patient lay there for hours not 20 minites
Where is the Minister of Health..S A this is shamefull
Mr Mazibuko nurses should not be protected when they display unprofessional rude behaviour endangering the lives of goggos, poor people, the docile, the uncomplaining etc
You got to love social media once something goes viral then everyone wants to jump around ( tom needs to give the names of all those unqualified doctors we want them fired
You actually don't care at all
THANK HEAVENS THIS TIME IT IS NOT APARTHEID'S FAULT ?????? OR IS IT?????????????????
It's the cry of a previously privileged apartheid guy.
@@Fikzo ANC DESTROYED EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY!!! DISGUSTING 🤢🤮
@@Fikzo IT IS A SHAME OF WHAT HAPPENED AFTER 1994
He is not worried at all😂
I no more greet nurses when I enter the consulting room.
How does that help
Sad
Can you check mthatha general hospital particularly the casualty unit
Minister of health EC
This hospital is bad news.
They cant run a hospital but want to run NHI Eron fix hospitals now stop talking about NHI you wasting our time and money
That will never happen, NHI is happening wheather you like it or not.
@@aeiou2I supposed you comrades need those designer clothes, cars and lifestyles nè?
Drunk with greed!
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.
Even private health care is the same
Where?
I agree. I was at a Netcare (I would much rather not say which one) a few years ago and by then everything had dropped. Like a lift on free fall.
An older lady in a bed in my hospital room repeatedly called for help at night, and the nurses ignored her. You could hear them talking in the nurses station.
The next day, I demanded to see the Matron. I ripped those nurses to shreds. These nurses we have are heartless. Don't look for a Florence Nightingale in South African hospitals, they don't exist. Work ethic has eroded. The culture of indifference has spread from the public sector to the private sector. I have no problem with telling people off to their faces. None. I don't care who they are, or think they are.
Private hospitals today, are light years away from where they were a couple of decades ago.
My dad was admitted a few times at this same hospital over 25 years ago and he was assigned a male nurse to care for him. His care was exemplary. The staff were incredible throughout. The Specialist unfortunately, was an absolute, heartless doos. He cared more about billing.
Yes, private hospitals weren't as busy then as they are today because fewer people had medical aid, but that should not be an excuse! The culture of our country and people throughout South Africa needs a revamp. Starting right at the top, from our out of touch, indifferent President.
Our public hospitals were good during apartheid. Well run, clean, fulfilled its role. Today, they're a hell hole.
@@Thatotherguy803Everywhere - poor staffing could leave you quite DEAD to the tune of thousands. State is infinitely worse - choice is either really bad or worse - take your pick!.
Don't lie, please! 😒
@@khanyi_zulu I know what I'm talking about,I use to work at Life healthcare,I went there as a patient,most of the staff working there are agency staff and they dont care.
Despite the state and it's well-known incompetence, it begs the question as to what kind of people the medical schools are churning out - there seems to be a complete lack of humanity amongst the doctors and nurses. Yes, the circumstances under which they must work might be horrible but when do they start saying "enough is enough" and change it? They swore an oath my goodness!
Mr Mazibuko he's on the defensive mode stop that, nurses were suppose to make sure that those are taken before knocking what's the policy of nursing, nurses they don't care they will tell you if you want care have medical aid they talk any they don't care of our feelings
Start by cell phones at there jobs they running the passeges witn their cellphines busy on them nit interest in the etiket about their jobs and they rude to lasy to do their jobs if you repremant them they refuse to deliver service to pasient
Bs he died and was left their for 20min by the time the video was taken so now they waiting for the next shift to come on to remove the body , he died of neglect on your shift you had to treat him with dignity and have his body removed on your shift this guy sounds like a fool .
He was laying there with his mouth open they didn't even have the decency to cover him up these government hospitals are in a state we have unqualified DRS and Nurses South africa is in deep deep trouble
You go into these government hospitals and you don't come out alive 35 years old and dying from neglect absolutely disgusting heads need to role
batho pele for you😂 along with its visions and missions😮 thats when this rot started. All the good nurses are retired or have left nursing. They are only there for the salary.nothing else
Many of our nurses were head hunted by British hospitals. I had a colleague whose wife left one of our public hospitals in the early 2000's after a heavy recruitment drive by the UK for SA healthcare staff.
The wheat has been separated from the chaff .... We've been hollowed out in every sector. The only loyal South Africans are our sports men and women despite the hardship over the years.
Unfortunately, people can't feed their families on "loyal to state"... their families come first. We understand that. Things need to change, yesterday.
Our current Minister of Health reigned over this same portfolio before and like those before him, he stood by and allowed it to fall into further ruin. Today the 🤡 is punting NHI! Yet another feeding trough for the comrades!
Yes Tom is lucky to be alive. There are hospitals with permanent CEO who are no better than Helen Joseph
Tom said in his time at the Helen Joseph he saw around 80 ( short staffed?)doctors pass through the ward and could count on one hand those who showed empathy and care.
Helen Joseph is a Teaching Hospital so it has a Lot of student
Minister of health must start doing his job and stop playing the race card
Minister of Health used to be Minister of Health before he became Minister of Home Affairs. A useless person that leaves everything he's touched in a worse condition than he found it in.
The comrades need to be removed. Period. South Africans appear to love being treated poorly... voting the same uncaring scourge in again and again.
Will you just say that you are messing up
Nylstroom Klerksdorp the same people die with no help we need to check all hospitals run by the state incompetence, attitudes
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 !
@@johnknottenbelt2727 Yes , it used to be the J G Strijdom Hospital. My sons were born there and I also trained as nurse there. Used to be a stunning well functional hospital and 30 years later ...... DESTROYED by the ANC!!!
1994 happened!!!
Just more excuses whose responsibility it is to move a deceased patient. Excuses excuses excuses enough excuses. How about some accountability. It would make such a difference to public opinion.
It's the Porters Job...but the government no longer employes the Porters
I SMILE CAMPAIGN ,,, MY ASS
Exactly, stop these fake rhetorics/slogans and do proper patient care without being forced, we are already getting paid for it through taxpayer funding. Problem is someone is deciding what individual institutions must do, instead of institutional managers determining what their institutions should do to improve and deliver a better service at those points of care.
Nee man, sis to all of you who was suppose to take care of all patients. Shame on those who stole health care funds
Cared for are hardly the words to be used here. Lack of care. Inhumane treatment by doctors to their patients
As a medic that takes patients to government hospitals, I can tell you that this man does not know what he's talking about.
Very few nursing staff are actually there to help, and those that do help us as medics have known us for years, being in the medical field together and thus assisting with patients that need urgent assistance.
It's about time that people are held accountable for their lack of empathy towards patients. No one is holding a gun to their head and forcing them to work at a facility that has nothing in place, from proper disposable medical items to proper functioning equipment.
If you choose to work there, you can still treat a person with dignity. Start fighting for the right reasons, mainly proper allocations of funding for the facility that you work at so that it's properly stocked and has the proper equipment to manage your sick patients.
Stop sitting in tea rooms the whole day and chatting to your colleagues about your personal issues. Start caring for your patients and if you can't do that, then leave the profession and stop stealing our money because it's our tax that is paying your salary!!!
These useless dictatorial staff are better suited to selling vegetables on a street corner.
Exactly my point, let’s do the basics right, patients will not even realise the extent of our system struggles.
health departments and hospitals is major medical centers big problems DA minister Mr Jack Bloom brought it up on other news outlets nothing is happening go to hillbrow community center hospital rooms 13 black lady doctor does not even come out of room door closed patients sitting outside on bench when is your turn to go inside dont even check on ne looks at chart and tell me to cone back on this day there is some good doctors here that's helpful asks you question take our temperature want a history of what up not room 13 i stopped going to centre I'm a pensioner
What is wrong with nurses and Drs in this country, some of them it seems like they hate their jobs and are forced to work as health professions.
Even at shops like checkers or spar .. they not friendly, they seem to drag their feet when it comes to helping you at a counter, for example.. it's like they don't really want to be helping shoppers.. it's mind blogging that their attitudes are just off putting..WHY?
Why are the officials acting as if this is a new thing? That hospital is a hell hole where patients go to die. The building is falling apart and is filthy. The staff are rude and uncaring and treat you worse than a dog. These officials live in a bubble ‘cause they go to private hospitals and their children go to private schools. If they and their family were forced to go to a hospital with dirty toilets, rats, filthy floors and walls that are literally falling apart, they would take action.
those are good questions but I think he is asking the wrong person
It seems that once you enter a government hospital, you have no guarantee that you are going to leave. 😢
We had a similar near death and poor treatment experience at Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital in Vosloosrus and when we made a written complaint they brushed us off without even reading our complaint before attending the redress meeting. It saddens me that our government hospital staff have declined to this level of disdain towards their patients. My wife was nearly killed due to an overdose and thereafter treated with utter distain by the nurses in ward12 when informing the ICU doctor after which she was treated very badly to a point that she feared for her life and begged me to take her home in fear. A very difficult experience indeed.
I had the same experience with mulbarton hospital
It's a pathetic case
Very scary
I don't think any human being should experience this while sick and being admitted to the hospital
In the midst of an overwhelmed and often underfunded healthcare system, one might expect compassion, empathy, and basic human decency to remain constants. Yet, the glaring lack of care displayed by some doctors today is deeply troubling, and it raises an urgent question: How did we get to a point where the very people entrusted with our health and well-being can so often seem indifferent or even callous?
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.
Our room was the first to go excise but man man officers where hot. But let me tell you something. After that warden was so good to me 🙏
Its not only poor people, you all liar's this has been going on for years in all province's,go do the ground work yourself and see,there is a hand full of dedicated nurses left,the rest on there cell phones including security officers.
Appalling
If you can remember the words of bheki mtolo u won't go wrong
Why not employing nurses more in public hospital.
What are you saying?
Plz investigate RAHIMA MOOSA ...
The complainaint was not complaining about the nursing staff.
He said that they were very good, and helpful.
The Drs and the actual building maintenance, the compassion was addressed.
Khohlwa sekuyizibhedlela ngegama sekusebenza amadimoni aholwa inkosi yakhona usathane laba basebenzela imali ukuphela kwenyanga
Nurses got problem with transport need to rush for after work.
And that gives them the right to be rude and heartless towards people who are in need of their help? Sick people? People who might not live without it?
Lesufi promised NHI from 29 May. Haibo, where is that wena at? 😢
Sounds like the nurses failed in their duties after the death of that poor man. Thats the bottom line .
Can you check mthatha general hospital particularly the casualty unit