Patients hold staff hostage as they wait for ambulance

Staff reportedly remained at the clinic after 4pm on Friday as they waited for an ambulance to move a patient to a nearby hospital.

"Though they were still at the clinic, they could not allow new patients to arrive as it was already past the official closing time," City of Johannesburg health and social development MMC Mpho Phalatse said in a statement on Friday evening. The clinic offers primary healthcare on weekdays from 7.30am to 4pm and partners with the Chiawelo Community Health Centre which offers round-the-clock healthcare service.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

They were not patient patients,

Metlholo Ga e fele

Seriously !!

EFF has pleaded with authorities to create 24hr public health care access but none. Let them bare the brunt

I hope they managed to patch things up....

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