Psychiatrist testifies on failed efforts to avoid the Life Esidimeni tragedy
Legal proceedings inch ahead for possible criminal prosecutions of those whose decisions led to the death of 144 Life Esidimeni patients.
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Legal proceedings inch ahead for possible criminal prosecutions of those whose decisions led to the death of 144 Life Esidimeni patients.
Another day, another attempt by Dr Makgabo Manamela to postpone proceedings which have already been plagued by delays as a result of the unpreparedness of Gauteng health department and NGO witnesses.
Official testifies she compiled licences for NGOs in the Life Esidimeni Marathon Project for the transfer of mental healthcare users, but was not part of the process.
Departmental requirements were not complied with by NGOs, a former deputy director of the Gauteng Health Department has testified.
The former deputy director of the Gauteng Department of Health Mental Health Directorate, Hendricka Jacobus, was back on the stand on Wednesday at the inquest into the death of 144 mental healthcare users who died in 2016 after being moved from Life Esidimeni facilities to NGOs during the so-ca...