Moretele clinics face chronic shortage of medicine
Precious Mashiane
May 9, 2024
Clinics in Moretele in the North West province are facing a chronic shortage of essential medicines.
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Moretele clinics are facing a chronic shortage of essential medicines, leaving patients like Koketso Khoza and Mmamogolo Golela without essential healthcare. Patients blame health workers at these clinics for the unavailability of basic drugs. Read more in our story and share your experience, have you been able to get medicine at your local clinic? ![]()
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Moretele clinics face chronic shortage of medicine
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Clinics in Moretele in the North West province are facing a chronic shortage of essential medicines.
Bheki Mlangnei is the first new hospital built in Gauteng since 1994. Built in 2014, the hospital quickly developed a reputation for poor service. Instead of the best, residents of Soweto say they were given the worst. By 2020 locals dubbed it ‘Avbob’, after the funeral service society, due to the number of deaths as a result of mismanagement and bad service. Read more about it here:
10 years later Bheki Mlangeni Hospital is in dire need of ‘competent and honest management’
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Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto was built in 2014, but it has already earned the nickname 'Avbob'.
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