{"id":45977,"date":"2022-08-30T06:02:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T04:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weskusnuus\/minister-gedaag-20220829-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:00:12","slug":"minister-gedaag-20220829-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weskusnuus\/minister-gedaag-20220829-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister gedaag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Die Wesfleur-hospitaal was in Mei en Junie die vierde besigste hospitaal in die provinsie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Earl Meyer, hoof van die hospitaal, s\u00ea die drie ander besige hospitale \u2013 Paarl, George en Mitchell\u2019s Plain \u2013 is groter as Atlantis, en daarom is die plaaslike gemeenskap se eise nie onregverdig nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meyer het Dinsdag 16 Augustus met die Wes-Kaapse LUR vir gesondheid, dr. Nomafrench Mbombo, met haar besoek aan die hospitaal vergader. Die minister se besoek was deel van haar plan om dienste in die provinsie te verbeter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honderde inwoners het egter na die Atlantis-hospitaal opgeruk en \u2019n memorandum aan die minister oorhandig oor die swak diens wat inwoners van die gebied kry. Verskillende politieke partye en gemeenskapsorganisasies het kragte saamgesnoer om \u2019n duidelike boodskap aan die minister te stuur. Raadslede van verskillende partye het ook hul gewig agter die gemeenskap gegooi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anastasia Davids, \u2019n raadslid van die CCC, was woedend omdat die proses om dienslewering by die hospitaal te verskerp, so lank neem en s\u00ea probleme moes al lankal opgelos gewees het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allister Lightburn, raadslid van die wyk waarin die hospitaal val, het ook gal gebraak en ges\u00ea indien die media nie by die vergadering welkom is nie, wou hy ook nie deel van die proses wees nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die saga by Wesfleur-hospitaal het verdiep toe die gemeenskapsaktivis Joshua Swarts se lewensmaat, Harriet Michaels, op Jeugdag dood is. Sy het glo agt ure gewag om behandeling te kry. Swarts blameer die hospitaal vir haar dood en het ges\u00ea die hospitaal het sy geliefde \u201cvermoor\u201d. 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