These are anecdotes about alleged poor care and negligence at Groote Schuur Hospital and other public sector health facilities in the Western Cape and around the country as and when I hear about them. I'll occasionally include stories about poor service in other public service fields. I was told these stories by friends and family of affected patients or experienced them myself. I accepted their veracity at face value, or if it occurred to me or my family, vouch for their authenticity. I'm not in a position to verify second hand accounts, and even if I was, the hospital or other service providers would not provide details due to confidentiality and not wishing to publicise poor service. There may be sound, mitigating explanations for some of these accounts. But I shall stick to the facts as I understand them. These stories are unlikely to be known to or covered by the media which tends to concentrate on the sensational, facile, "racism" and other politically e...
Blog on medical and health matters with a focus on the Western Cape's public health system.