64 year old Bheki Mazibuko was allegedly turned away from Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Jabulani Soweto because he didn’t have the R20 admission fee.

Mazibuko’s son Bongani Mazibuko says that staff at the hospital turned his father away when they found out they didn’t have the admission fee. 

Bongani Mazibuko said that a doctor and a nurse would not assist his father without the admission fee. Bongani said he only had R15 on him and despite going outside the hospital to beg people for some change could not get the full R20.  He later managed to raise the money but was told it was too late his father had passed on. 

According to Bongani his father didn’t receive any help from the hospital staff because they told him it was hospital policy to receive an admission fee before a patient could be helped.

The Sowetan Newspaper reported that Health Department spokesman Steve Mabona said Bheki Mazibuko was attended to by a doctor.

"He arrived at 18.10pm in an ambulance, escorted by the son, and was put on oxygen at 18.45pm. Seeing that the patient's condition was deteriorating, the doctor resuscitated him at 19.05pm, CPR [was] done and medication prescribed. It was only at 19.50pm that the patient was certified dead and the family contacted at 20.30pm."

Mabona said no one can be turned away from hospital because of lack of money.

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