'The nurses were busy singing while my unborn baby was dying'
ON Saturday the Thwala family buried their baby who died because of alleged negligence by striking nurses.
When they pulled the baby out they used force and the head was separated into two parts
Busi Thwala, 28, said she went to Germiston Hospital to give birth but left traumatised after her baby died because nurses refused to help her.
"I arrived at 5.30pm on Tuesday and I told them that my baby was due, but the nurse told me that I could do whatever I liked because other people were also waiting.
"They were busy singing while my baby was dying," she said.
She said she was finally admitted at midnight.
Thwala said that when the doctor arrived at 2am the nurse told him she had high blood pressure, which Thwala denied.
"The doctor took me for a sonar, shook his head and said the baby's heart had stopped. I cried."
She said she was taken to a separate room and left alone.
"I cried the whole night alone and the baby was starting to come up in my stomach."
Thwala said nurses working the morning shift came and checked her file and left her unattended.
She said her mother came to visit and was allowed in at 10am.
Her mother, Virginia Thwala, said: "My friend and I started to help Busi to push the baby down and out.
"I called a nurse and said the head was out, but she told me she was busy."
She said when the nurses came they chased her out of the room.
Thwala said a nurse removed the placenta and cleaned her.
"What hurts me is that when they pulled the baby out they used force and the head was separated into two parts," she cried.
Her mother said she returned to the hospital on Thursday with a family undertaker to collect the baby for burial.
"I found the baby in the sink in the ward next to another body. It was starting to rot.
The skin had changed colour and it was dry.
"It was the first time I saw something like that," she sobbed.
1malesia
What a horrific story! Some of these nurses need to be banished for life from this profession. Or maybe they ought to be given such treatment at least once in their lives so that they know how others feel like. What angers me more is that it is the very same people who feel they deserve better salaries. For what? They HAVE to be repremanded, loose their jobs, else this will never end!!!!!Report Abuse
mcatum
They are murderers, they have taken a life and need to punished for that I think the family must open up a case against them. After reading this story I feel they don't deserve any increase, and the government is to blame for this, I just wonder what will happen if the police go on strike yo yo yo :(Report Abuse
LEEZO
True that 1Malesia, such people don’t deserve salary increase. These nurses are heartless how can they neglect people like this just because of money. COME ON!!!! Where is UBUNTU?????Report Abuse
LEEZO
In Sebokeng hospital in the Vall triangle 4 people died in the ICU on Saturday night because there went any nurses to care for them. This makes me wonder as to how many people have died since the beginning of the strike in the whole of South Africa? The gov needs to do something URGENTLY before more souls are lost.Report Abuse
Tsinki
this is very sad,i wonder how wud the nurse feel if she was neglected like that.dont nurses have an oath when they start working!....is this job not about love for helping peopleReport Abuse
MamaZen
Aowa bathong, ke eng tsona tse mara:-(? This is not about the strike anymore, this nurse is a devil herself. Treating another human being like that...she should be ashamed for the rest of her life. This is despicable!Report Abuse
ntebo
i WAS SUPPORTING THEIR STRIKE , THEY NEED THE MONEY YES BUT TO BE SO HEARTLESS? WORST PART THOSE NURSES ARE WOMEN TOO, IMAGINE THE PAIN OF THAT WOMAN ,THE GOVERMENT SHOULD FIRE THEM, THEY THINK THEY ARE MAKING THE GORV FEEL THEY PAIN BUT FAMILIES OF PATIENTS ARE THE ONES FEELING THE PAIN,
i'M JUST IMAGINENG THE PAIN OF THAT WOMAN WHEN THEY TOLD HER HER BABY'S HEART HAS STOPPED, AND THEY JUST LEFT,
LE SATANE O BOTAKA FA
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Ali
I blame the government for all this, the officials are getting fat cheques and 45 percent increase but they claim that there's no money. I'm actually shocked with the president's comment last week that there's no such thing as an indifinite strike, can't he rather come up with solution rather than quoting on what people say. Isn't it why he is president, to think out of the box? People are dying out there and our government is busy on a debate.Report Abuse
mulexburg
What a shocker, these are things that money can do. I echo the same setiments malesia, after what happened i dont think the should be an increase. Every1 has a right to life, loosing a baby in such manner its unacceptable and it will take some time to heal such wounds. We need a tharal envistigation and that nurse who spilted the infant's head need to be punished. I dont support what the government is doing but i also do not encourage irresponsible behaviors either.Report Abuse