Comments Thread For: Corrie Sanders Hospital Mishap is Now Being Probed

[liuj88]

I'm not sure he would have survived either way. Steve Biko Academic Hospital is about 50 minutes from Brits, according to google maps, and Kalafong Hospital is about an hour. Either way, it's completely f**cked for any hospital to turn someway away when they've been shot.

For a victim of multiple gunshot wounds, every second counts. He may or may not have survived if he was admitted to the nearer hospital, but his chances certainly got worse by being treated at a facility farther away.

[Weltschmerz]

Wouldn't have happened anywhere in Europe. So-called developed South Africa doesn't seem like such a developed country. Cynical society.

[kokingbill]

Did you even read the article?

“There is however no policy allowing patients in emergency situation to be turned away.”

“Section 27 of the Constitution, the National Health Act, as well as the HPCSA's ethical guidelines clearly states that a health care provider may not refuse a person emergency medical treatment,”

I don't care what junkies do, hospitals in SA have no right to turn down patients who are in need of emergency care. Whoever turned him down broke the law, regardless of the reason.

You're the one who made a cheap political snipe by calling the guy a commie when you clearly know nothing about his country.

A hospital being on "divert" happens when the hospital is full and they cannot take any more patients. They are not denying them care, only sending them somewhere else. It happens here in the U.S. all the time at major hospitals experiencing high numbers of traumas. They arent denying care if they are diverting people. Thats fine when your in NY, Baltimore, DC, LA, Boston, Chicago, Dallas or any major US city which has multiple large hospitals. Its more troublesome when youre in a developing nation which has hospitals hours apart. When they think someone is not so serious, they can divert them an hour away. They grossly misjudged his injuries. The point im trying to make is that they wouldnt be so stingy or judgmental about admitting people if they werent swamped with junkies trying to get free drugs. I see it all the time.

[Guest]

According to SA papers, there was a hospital 7 minutes away but the ambulance service took him to one 45 minutes away.

I smell a lawsuit victory for Sanders family if this is true(I know it's no consolation) but the report is they weren't even taken to the nearest hospital which legally would have treated him, they would have to, even if he didn't have medical insurance.

Who knows if he would have lived, but he would have had a much better chance.


At any rate, they caught 3 suspects who were booked for robbery/murder.

[Guest]

A hospital being on "divert" happens when the hospital is full and they cannot take any more patients. They are not denying them care, only sending them somewhere else. It happens here in the U.S. all the time at major hospitals experiencing high numbers of traumas. They arent denying care if they are diverting people. Thats fine when your in NY, Baltimore, DC, LA, Boston, Chicago, Dallas or any major US city which has multiple large hospitals. Its more troublesome when youre in a developing nation which has hospitals hours apart. When they think someone is not so serious, they can divert them an hour away. They grossly misjudged his injuries. The point im trying to make is that they wouldnt be so stingy or judgmental about admitting people if they werent swamped with junkies trying to get free drugs. I see it all the time.

The nearest hospital didn't say in the news they diverted him. They apparently were never called.