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A woman from the Eastern Cape is accusing a hospital of removing her womb without her knowledge in 2017.
She is now suing the provincial health department for R3 million for medical negligence.
The Eastern Cape department of health says the woman s claims are highly unlikely and has vowed to defend the claims in court.
An Eastern Cape mother is suing the provincial health department for R3 million after a doctor removed her womb, allegedly without her knowledge, after she developed an infection following a caesarean section.
Siphesihle Mtyingezane, 26, from Somerville village in Tsolo said her womb was removed without her consent by doctors at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha in 2017.
Every year botched traditional circumcisions in the Eastern
Cape make headlines as some young men are badly injured, and in some cases die.
The provincial legislature in 2016 passed the Eastern Cape
Customary Male Initiation Practice Act in an attempt to ensure that initiates
come back home healthy and alive. The legislature is now reviewing the Act to
further tighten provisions to protect initiates better.
However, despite the legislation, and other efforts at
improving safety, some initiates still die while undergoing the ritual. The
traditional circumcision season in the province usually takes place twice a
year, in summer and winter.
Thirteen initiates died in the Eastern Cape during the 2020
Case against Eastern Cape nurse accused of rape postponed
News24
20 May 2021, 04:11 GMT+10
The case against an Eastern Cape nurse accused of raping a woman inside Holy Cross Hospital s consultation room has been postponed to 26 June.
The 31-year-old briefly appeared in the Flagstaff Magistrate s Court on Wednesday.
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Luxolo Tyali said the case was postponed because a decision from the senior prosecutor was awaited on.
The case against an Eastern Cape nurse accused of raping a woman inside Holy Cross Hospital s consultation room in Flagstaff, the Eastern cape, has been postponed to next month.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Luxolo Tyali said the case was postponed to 26 June because a decision was awaited on from a senior public prosecutor.
Two Eastern Cape pupils burnt to death and seven others were injured after their clothes caught fire.
They were trying to burn a snake slithering on the school grounds.
The education department is probing allegations the pupils were allegedly instructed by a teacher to set the snake alight.
Two Eastern Cape pupils burnt to death and seven others were injured after their clothes caught fire when they attempted to burn a snake found on the school grounds.
The Eastern Cape education department confirmed the bizarre incident occurred at the Nzulula Primary School in Libode on Tuesday.
Two pupils died at St Barnabas and Nelson Mandela Academic Hospitals due to the burns they suffered, education spokesperson Malibongwe Mtima said.