Elderly patients forced to wait days for treatment at Durban hospital
(World News South Africa)

Durban - `You sit on a hard chair or lie on a thin gurney for five days, then you´re told to pack your things and go because the machine is broken and no treatment is available. That was the fate of a pensioner at Durban´s Addington Hospital who arrived for treatment on Monday and by lunchtime on Friday still lay on a gurney waiting for treatment. The gurney was similar to those used by doctors in an examining room: narrow with a thin, hard mattress. Former IFP KwaZulu-Natal MPL Loretta Rajkumar contacted the Independent on Saturday to highlight the plight of pensioners waiting, often for days, for treatment. According to Rajkumar, she spent three days and three nights sitting on a hard...