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Life Esidimeni: 'There wasn't any process followed', former health official tells inquest

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NGOs were used to care for patients after the Gauteng health department terminated the contract with Life Esidimeni. Manamela signed licences giving inexperienced and underfunded NGOs permission to look after profoundly mentally ill patients. It was found that many NGOs were entirely unprepared for the patients they received, some without adequate food, water, medication, staff or blankets.

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Life Esidimeni: 'There wasn't any process followed', former health official tells inquest

Hannah Jacobus, who was in charge of checking NGO's readiness to receive mental healthcare patients, has admitted that the process was rushed.

2 years ago·South Africa

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Times Live

Moving patients was 'rushed', former health boss tells Life Esidimeni inquest

The former Gauteng deputy DG for mental health services has reiterated to the inquest in the Pretoria high court that processes were rushed in moving Life Esidimeni patients.

2 years ago·Johannesburg, South Africa

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The Citizen

Former senior health official admits Life Esidimeni project was 'rushed'

The inquest into the Life Esidimeni tragedy resumed at the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday.Hanna Jacobus, the former deputy director within the mental health directorate at the Gauteng Department of Health, has taken to the witness stand to be cross-examined. Jacobus is responsible for the NGOs in Gauteng where over 140 mentally ill patients died.The mandate of the hearings is to investigate who, if anyone, should be held criminally liable…

2 years ago·South Africa

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dispatchlive.co.za

Moving patients was 'rushed', former health boss tells Life Esidimeni inquest

The former Gauteng deputy DG for mental health services has reiterated to the inquest in the Pretoria high court that processes were rushed in moving Life Esidimeni patients.

2 years ago·South Africa

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