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KROONSTAD<\/strong> – Medelye het op sosiale media ingestroom nadat bekend geword het dat die bekende veearts van Kroonstad, dr. JW Eksteen, oorlede is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danie Minnaar, woordvoerder van die Eksteen-familie, het Saterdagoggend 21 Februarie sy afsterwe bevestig. Eksteen (51) is Maandag 9 Februarie ernstig beseer toe \u2019n buffel hom tydens \u2019n voorval op \u2019n wildsplaas buite Clocolan aangeval het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. JW Eksteen (51), bekende veearts van Kroonstad, is Saterdag 21 Februarie oorlede nadat hy bykans twee weke in die ho\u00ebsorgeenheid van Mediclinic Bloemfontein behandel is n\u00e1 \u2019n buffelaanval op \u2019n wildsplaas buite Clocolan. FOTO: Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hy is onmiddellik n\u00e1 die voorval na die spreekkamers van drs. Joubert en Beeton in Clocolan geneem, waar hy behandel en gestabiliseer is. Daarna is hy per helikopter na Mediclinic Bloemfontein oorgeplaas vir verdere behandeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEES OOK: <\/strong>Mediese span kry man blitsvinnig in teater n\u00e1 buffel-voorval<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanoggend het Trio Prim\u00ear hul medelye op hul Facebook-blad uitgespreek: \u201cMet diepe hartseer verneem ons van JW Eksteen se afsterwe. In hierdie moeilike tyd hou ons die Eksteen-familie in ons gedagtes en gebede. Mag julle krag en vertroosting vind in die liefde en ondersteuning van familie en vriende, en mag die kosbare herinneringe aan JW julle dra deur die dae wat voorl\u00ea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnaar het versoek dat die familie se privaatheid gerespekteer word en aangedui dat enige verdere inligting deur toepaslike kanale gekommunikeer sal word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEES OOK: <\/strong>Buffel karnuffel jagter tot in die hospitaal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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