A MPUMALANGA hospital has been caught in a bitter row. This was after a couple's newborn baby died on arrival at Shongwe Hospital in Malelane.
In a heart-wrenching e-mail to Sowetan, Bongani Evans of Ngwenyeni Trust said his girlfriend Elisa Thobela who lives in Hectorspruit called an ambulance at about 10pm but it only arrived at 2am.
He said that neighbours helped his girlfriend deliver the baby. One of them cut the umbilical cord and the baby started bleeding.
The baby was delivered at about 1am, Evans said.
The mother and child were taken to Shongwe Hospital and the baby died on arrival.
The ambulance arrived at Thobela's house at 2am.
"If the ambulance officials were fast, my newborn baby boy would have survived," he wrote.
To make matters worse, Evans said: "They (hospital) even buried my son without my concern".
But Thobela said she told Evans that it was her family's decision that the hospital should bury the baby.
She pointed out that Evans never helped her during her pregnancy.
"He did not do anything for me. I'm surprised he wants the body of our child."
Called with an inquiry into the burial of the child, Julia Ndlovu from Mpumalanga health and social development department, said: "I am shocked because we don't bury anymore".
Hospital embroiled in couple's bitter row
A MPUMALANGA hospital has been caught in a bitter row. This was after a couple's newborn baby died on arrival at Shongwe Hospital in Malelane.
In a heart-wrenching e-mail to Sowetan, Bongani Evans of Ngwenyeni Trust said his girlfriend Elisa Thobela who lives in Hectorspruit called an ambulance at about 10pm but it only arrived at 2am.
He said that neighbours helped his girlfriend deliver the baby. One of them cut the umbilical cord and the baby started bleeding.
The baby was delivered at about 1am, Evans said.
The mother and child were taken to Shongwe Hospital and the baby died on arrival.
The ambulance arrived at Thobela's house at 2am.
"If the ambulance officials were fast, my newborn baby boy would have survived," he wrote.
To make matters worse, Evans said: "They (hospital) even buried my son without my concern".
But Thobela said she told Evans that it was her family's decision that the hospital should bury the baby.
She pointed out that Evans never helped her during her pregnancy.
"He did not do anything for me. I'm surprised he wants the body of our child."
Called with an inquiry into the burial of the child, Julia Ndlovu from Mpumalanga health and social development department, said: "I am shocked because we don't bury anymore".
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