COPE CONCERNED ABOUT PATIENTS WHO HAVE TO DRINK DIRTY WATER AT THE BONGANI HOSPITAL

COPE CONCERNED ABOUT PATIENTS WHO HAVE TO DRINK DIRTY WATER AT THE BONGANI HOSPITAL

By BRIAN KAJENGO

COPE in Mpumalanga is seriously concerned about the fact that patients at the Bongani hospital in Hazyview are subjected to drinking dirty water.

Riot Hlatshwayo say COPE has exclusively discovered that the provincial department of health has failed to avail chemicals used for water purification at the hospital’s plant since.

Bongani hospital did not have a water purification plant at least until 2011 when it was built.

He said, “Patients at this hospital are bound to drink brown water which obviously has water-bound bacteria that are not fit for human consumption.”

COPE in Mpumalanga feel this is totally unacceptable and therefore calls on the department of health to deal with the crisis as a matter of urgency.

“This problem is one of those that discredit the ANC led government of South Africa hence we call on the voters to vote for COPE if they do not want this type of problems to continue.” Riot Hlatshwayo said.