Patient admitted for heart, renal failure found dead in bathtub at Helen Joseph

25 January 2016 - 13:51
By TMG Digital

The Gauteng Department of Health on Monday said it will probe the “mysterious death of a patient” who was “found in a bathtub with severe burns to the face‚ parts of left thigh and leg”. The discovery of the 35-year-old deceased woman at Helen Joseph Hospital in Auckland Park was made on Sunday.She had been admitted on Friday‚ along with a three-month-old baby‚ and according to the “hospital’s records the patient diagnosis was heart and renal failure”.

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