Skip to content

Motsoaledi sends review committee to crisis-hit Northern Cape hospitals [SOUND]

# Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has expressed concern over findings in the Health Ombud’s report on Northern Cape Mental Health Hospital and Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital, following the deaths of two patients. The report cites lack of power, poor infrastructure and staff shortages. Motsoaledi announced that the National Mental Health Review Committee will revisit the hospitals, stressing a thorough reassessment is needed to reverse what he called multi-system organ failure:

ENG-MotsoalediOnCommittee