Hundreds of women have marched to Harry Surtie Hospital in Upington in the Northern Cape to hand-over a memorandum of grievances over their dissatisfaction with the hospital’s failure to give proper healthcare to residents.
They say that the hospital operates on minimal staff, and the doctors are unable communicate with patients due to language barriers.
The March organiser Eunice Pita says they have communication challenges between doctors and patients.
“We as community don’t understand what’s happening at the hospital. The doctors are too little, the doctors can’t communicate with the patients because of the language barriers. People can’t get their chronic medication from the clinics because there is no medication. They tell the people, ‘you must go and buy’… where must people get money buy medication from?”
