Bara patients lose hope as surgery backlog piles up
'I told my daughter which policies to claim from for my funeral'
Huge surgery backlogs at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital have cancer patients losing hope as their lives are at risk due to the hospital experiencing power outages and a lack of beds among other things.
At least 11,194 patients are waiting for procedures ranging from spinal surgery and oncology to Orthopaedic surgery...
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