Health crisis horrors

10 July 2015 - 02:03
By Ufrieda Ho

Fathers cradling dying children while hospital staff are "too busy to administer oxygen", mothers giving birth to dead babies and people told to use wheelbarrows to get to hospital. These were among the testimonies at the first People's Commission of Inquiry into the Free State health crisis, held in Bloemfontein this week.

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