Claims of patient neglect at EC hospital

MDANTSANE - The Eastern Cape Health Department says it takes negligence or misconduct allegations in a very serious light.

This follows allegations made at its hospitals.

In  Mdantsane, 30-year-old Ziphozihle Tomsana says she's bedridden after experiencing complications during childbirth in 2014.

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She claims that staff at the Cecilia Makiwane Hospital had assured her that she would recover after she was discharged.

But she now lives in constant pain after having spinal problems.

In Komga, the family of a deceased man claims that workers at the health facility were responsible for his death. 

* eNCA's Ronald Masinda reports.