Woman blames Eastern Cape hospital after open wound for 14 years - Juta MedicalBrief

Woman blames Eastern Cape hospital after open wound for 14 years - Juta MedicalBrief

An Eastern Cape woman has spent 14 years in agony after an appendectomy left her with an open wound, which her family blames on the hospital’s alleged “negligence” and which it says has conveniently “lost” the file, reports eNCA. Twenty-two-year-old Benathi Mbuse said she had never healed from the 2011 surgery at Uitenhage Provincial Hospital, with the pain confining her to bed most days. Her family blames poor care at the facility, saying it ha…