Reading Time: < 1 minute
The Life Esidimeni hearings are continuing in Parktown, Johannesburg following the death of 143 patients who died after being transferred from Life Esidimeni facilities to unlicensed and ill-equipped NGOs.
An employee at the state’s Cullinan Care and Rahabilitation Centre in Pretoria has told the Life Esidimeni hearings that they were overwhelmed as they were forced to take in more patients than they could care for.
They included adults who fell outside the category of patients Cullian looked after. The centre’s mandate was to admit patients between the ages of three and 21.
Cullinan then had to rapidly discharge certain patients who appeared stable, without proper assessments to NGOs.
