Strikes cause chaos for NW health

As protests across North West province increase along with demands for Premier Supra Mahumapelo to resign, the province's embattled health sector is feeling pain.

As protests across North West province increase along with demands for Premier Supra Mahumapelo to resign, the province's embattled health sector is feeling pain.

The cash-strapped North West Health Department has said that the lives of chronically ill patients in the province are now threatened due to ongoing workers strikes as medical supplies have been heavily affected.

As the North West Health Department's financial crisis deepens, so hospital patients are bearing the brunt. Graeme Makam reports that patients at mental health facility Bophelong Hospital in Mahikeng to receive no meat with their meals as from this coming Saturday(31 March).