Afrikaner smallholder Willem van der Merwe denied medical treatment for serious head injuries at Evander Hospital after he was bludgeoned by a black gang:
18 November 2013 - Willem van der Merwe, 64, suffered bad head injuries when he was attacked on a smallholding near Kinross by a gang of black males on 7 November 2013. His daughter Ria said his family members found him bludgeoned and unconscious next to a car on the smallholding. The family took him to Evander hospital 's casualty department and believing he'd get immediate care, went to report the farm-attack to the local police Upon their return they found him on a mattress on the floor of casualty. Still untreated. "We feared that he could have sustained serious brain damage by the blows to his head. He was incoherent and restless, ' she said. Despite his obvious need for emergency care, he was ignored by the medical staff, who told her he was 'just drunk'. She dressed her father in warm clothes herself and put him on a bed herself. The next day he was still there - untreated and had fallen off the urine-soaked bed. She tried to get him transferred to the Steve Biko hospital but the hospital authorities balked at this, saying she had no authority. She finally raised the managing director of the hospital and the chief matron and told them her father had been seriously injured in a farm attack the previous day and required immediate treatment. They transferred him to a general ward where he is 'responding to treatment', she said.
This inhumane response which he and other patients were handled with at that department is shocking, she said. The Mpumalanga health department's spokesman
Ronnie Masilela also claimed he was 'shocked'. "Our initial investigation shows that the complaint is grounded and we will take steps to deal with this'.
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