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PSA wants answers after patient’s death at Philadelphia Hospital [SOUND]

# The Public Servants Association is saddened by the death of a mental health patient at Philadelphia Hospital in Limpopo after an attack by another patient. The aggressor assaulted staff and a fellow patient, leading to the latter’s death. Security and police intervention failed until the aggressor was shot in the leg. The PSA’s acting provincial manager Phillip Maponya urged health MEC Dieketseng Mashego to explain why the patient was not transferred to a mental health facility:

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