Nurses who punish complaining patients feel MEC’s wrath

Patients around Thokoza and Vosloorus townships on the East Rand are caught between a rock and a hard place. Nurses prescribe expired medication to them and when they complain, they are punished by being told to come to the clinic every day to receive the daily dose of their chronic medication. On top of that, Phola Park Clinic in Thokoza, which is supposed to operate 24-hours a day, does not take patients after 11am. At night, the gates are closed and the nurses on night shift sleep the night away…..more

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