Culpible homicide (negligence) death due to toxic reaction to peniciline allergy which family warned about but which was repeatedly ignored by hospital staff: Feb 21 20 15 - Coenraad Janse van Rensburg, 'Middelburg Hospital killed our dad', say his daughters - reported by Middelburg newspaper who has the entire medical record in its possession of how Mr Janse van Rensburg was medicated to death. Report by Gerhard Rheeder 19 February 2015 The patient's daughters Stephanie Lottering and Belinda Janse van Rensburg said their father died in agony from toxic reactions to penicilline which the hospital had been repeatedly warned about. He was admitted to a chronic lung-ailment yet despite very clear instructions on his patient dossiers that he was NOT allowed to be treated with iodine or with penicilline because of allergic reactions, he was medicated repeatedly with penicilline-containing antibiotics before he died of Stevens-Johnson syndrome, which is a deadly skin disease leading to the skin-cells dying off and seperating the epidermic from the dermis. It is a very painful way to die. And it's caused by toxic reactions to penicilline. His hands, feet, legs and pelvis were covered in blisters and skin-infections. Stephanie said when he was discharged from this hospital in July 2014 and provided with medication by the hospital staff, his problems started. "Throughout this time until he died, penicilline-containing antibiotics were prescribed for him and one morning when we visited him his legs were so red it looked as if they had been burned. On 15 January before sunrise she rushed her dad to hospital where a nurse made the diagnoses of Stevens-Johnson syndrome - and this was also registered as such by the medical doctors who treated him. Yet the hospital did NOT provide him with the yellow armband required to warn staff that he suffered from penicilline allergies. He was admitted at once. | Every time I admitted my dad to that hospital I made a point of it to make very clear notitions on his medical dossier and forms that he was allergic for penicilline, said daughter Stephanie. And every time she visited him she noticed an 'Augmentin' drug being administered to him through a drip -
I warned Dr Dlamini that my dad was not allowed to receive Augmentin or anything else with penicilline but she merely told me 'that's all we have and he is being monitored...'
This excuse was also presented by staffers after Stephanie presented her father's dossier to student-doctors, she said.
“Dr. Dlamini initially claimed I could not prove anything because 'there's nothing in my dad's dossier about it, and got angry, clicked her tongue when I proved that she was wrong.'
The entire file is in the possession of The Observer of Middelburg's up to seven days before his death and it's confirmed that his allergies were indicated very frequently -
in fact that same Dr Dlamini also wrote her own diagnoses of 'serious Stevens-Johnson syndrome'...
Their lawyer Danie Koekemoer said he is 'speechless: those doctors clearly don't care about the patients and this is blatant malpractice and death through negligence'.
Charges are being lodges against the government health department.
The former chief of staff at the hospital Dr Phelmon Lethlako who left the job two weeks ago, claimed that 'if Mr Janse van Rensburg had been allergic to peniciline, his
anaphylactic shock-reaction would have led to his immediate death upon administering the medicine.'
He referred the Observer to the new chief of staff Pat Masibuko who referred the newspaper to the head of the medical staff Dr Ntuli, who referred to the Health Department.
The sisters said it's strange that he died so quickly and for the hospital now to shift the blame to others.
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