Fri May 24 22:33:52 SAST 2013

Doctors left needle in patient's stomach

Dec 11, 2012 | Sapa | 14 comments

The infection spread to other parts of his body and his right shoulder and arm became paralysed, and eight months later he developed a suppurating abscess in the surgical wound

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Fri May 24 22:33:52 SAST 2013 ::
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Dec 11, 2012

The-Vince

Sue them, R50 million, these doctors never learn a thing, they are negligent like their ANC government
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Dec 11, 2012

Iphone5

THERE GOES MY TAX MONEY TO SOME DUDE , MXM MXM MXM YA NE I WONDER HOW MUCH THEY GOING TO PAY HIM COZ OBVIOSULY THE DOCTORS DOESNT HAVE THAT MONEY... MXM OH I CRY FOR MY TAX MONEY
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Dec 11, 2012

MommaC

Dumbass doctor!

In all fairness though, the conditions that these government doctors work under, it is hardly surprising that things like this happen.
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Dec 11, 2012

WordofGod

hope the legal fees will not come from tax payers!!
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Dec 11, 2012

lindsay

one more reason to have hospitals
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Dec 11, 2012

lindsay

i mean hate hospitals
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Dec 11, 2012

Zimzalabam1

Sure the amount you will receive will ease the pain Mr.
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Dec 11, 2012

Mdala

I knew even before opening this article that this story is a Limpopo material
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Dec 11, 2012

taba-e-kana

Tjo this is pure neglingence at its best>>>its like not checking that your baby is trapped in proparly in the car seat...ho can they not check that all the tools were removed???

no amount of money can fix this....SA mara....
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Dec 11, 2012

Mokgaditse

The must go reverse the Nkandlagate cost and pay theis dude. Is better to pay for this that to make Zuma live like a king. We cannot always pay for KZN luxaries, King and Zuma they all eat our hard earned taxes.
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Dec 11, 2012

swona

Mdala
I knew even before opening this article that this story is a Limpopo material !

Arwyp used an external stich for an inside wound after 6month I saw a wool coming out of my son's abdomen, everytime I took him there they would cut it and it healed, after a month it will come out again, until it was fixed @Sandton Medi Clinic!
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Dec 11, 2012

Illuminated10111

one day i tell ya! this doctors will leave a whole nurse inside a patient's tummy!
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Dec 11, 2012

spirro

negligence at its best indeed,the patiant must sue the health department
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Dec 11, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

and was operated on Mahmood after complaining that the wound was “not improving”, and that he was experiencing a lot of nausea and pain.
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Bathong..................... how can he be operated on Mahmood



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