Had to take someone to a public hospital. Guys, our public health system is collapsing. What I saw is scary.
Apparently they cannot admit you say Charlotte Maxeka Hospital of you live in the North. You need to go to Helen Joseph's. The person I'm with can't even walk and they turned us away
@Tokyo_Trev What I saw in Tembisa hospital last year when I went to see a family member was horrific hey. And now the government wanna shove this NHI in our face. This is criminal.
@Tokyo_Trev & then people think this NHI thing will work in this country 😮💨
@Tokyo_Trev Some public hospitals are in a bad shape because of management but we really have some good public hospitals in the country.
@Tokyo_Trev @Sego_Mnisi Not collapsing but collapsed
@Tokyo_Trev I was shook when I visited someone at Charlotte Maxeke
@Tokyo_Trev My 84 year old father is in hospital, Karl Bremmer, in Cape Town after a heart attack. He is getting just the best treatment from nurses and doctors. The place is very old, but kept clean and organised. It can be done.
@Tokyo_Trev And yet doctors are unemployed and sitting at home as “there’s no funding for posts”
@Tokyo_Trev Went to Kalafong hospital, atteridgeville the other day, my brother was in casualty line from 7am till 3pm. That’s when I realised that our public health system is deplorable.
@Tokyo_Trev My friend passed away because they gave him painkillers when he had internal bleeding in his brain. It’s a mess!
@Tokyo_Trev Sometimes i think people who die at the hospital just give up the fight by just seeing the state of the facility they just see that they wont make it out alive here
@Tokyo_Trev My mom wrote me a loooong WhatsApp because she had to take her neighbor to a public hospital yesterday. The end of that story was that she too became sick, because of the amount of time they spent there( just waiting, no help) and the state of the hospital.
@Tokyo_Trev The problem is corruption, the immigration system, and patients don't pay for the services.
@Tokyo_Trev Your pain will disappear while you are sitting in those chairs. You will literally start to feel better because of the number of hours you have sat in those chairs. Casualty is worse, you fight for a spot-nurses sometimes choose who they treat first based on how sick you look.😭
@Tokyo_Trev One of the worst thing that can ever happen to you or your loved in this county, is to not have medical aid. I lost two relatives because of public hospitals
@Tokyo_Trev They want everyone to use those public hospitals by introducing NHI
@Tokyo_Trev George hospital in the Western Cape was excellent. As good as a private hospital in East London
@Tokyo_Trev I was sitting next to a guy who got stabbed in the eye with a screwdriver. The blade got to his brain. He was unusually calm. Then suddenly he started crying. He was in pain. Casualty was full. Yho public hospitals are scary.😔
@Tokyo_Trev Please they are the worst hospitals ever , I came in with a dislocated elbow around 6am and I only got assisted at 2pm ? Mind you my bone was out the socket the entire time 😭
@Tokyo_Trev NHI is in the pipeline things are going to be worse, country e busy ka groove
@Tokyo_Trev I lost my brother last month to a public hospital. Service is non existent and you can’t blame the nurses because it’s crystal clear the hospitals are not maintained.
@Tokyo_Trev I once sat overnight at Helen Joseph about 10 years ago accompanying my mom who refused to go to a private hospital even though she had medical aid. The trauma from that day made me never accompany anyone ever again to a public hospital.
@Tokyo_Trev Gorv starts with Education and Health budget, when doing cuts. SOEs are forever bailed out, hire more teachers, support staff and health care and improve infrastructe of schools and hospital.
@Tokyo_Trev What's worse is that now they're making it illegal for anyone to operate a private hospital with their NHI. Even if you have the money, you will be forced to go to these dilapidated hospitals with rude staff. It's gonna be a movie.
@Tokyo_Trev Apparently ke maZimbabwe who collapsed it🤭
@Tokyo_Trev l'll never forget the day my cousin got shot 4 times & was taken to Charlotte Maxeke, paramedics left him at casualty where he was only attended to after l had to call my aunt who was then a matron at Bara. She arrived with her uniform on & only then did they attend to him.
@Tokyo_Trev NHI will turn even the private facilities into the mess you experienced. One good thing is that the politicians will also be subjected to it, if they don't fly off to Russia for medical treatment
@Tokyo_Trev We left my grandmother last week Friday ko thelle vosloorus to arrive the next day were we left her died tht Nurse didn't even knw she was died we had to ask her to come check her cause we felt her cold. She was shocked also athi thy didn't even see