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Hulle is ges\u00ea om twee dae later terug te kom vir uitslae van die toetse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy saamleef-vrou was \u2019n pasi\u00ebnt van die Groote Schuur-hospitaal en moet daagliks \u2019n handvol pille gebruik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As gevolg van die pandemie het hulle haar na Atlantis oorgeplaas, en dit is waar ons probleme begin het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOns sukkel van dag een af met medikasie wat nooit beskikbaar is nie en sonder enige inkomste moes ek maar raap en skraap om die noodsaaklikste pille by die apteek te koop,\u201d vertel hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk glo die hospitaal het my vrou vermoor,\u201d vertel die gemeenskapswerker, wat na mishandelde diere omsien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harriet, wat reeds van haar vingers en tone verloor het, moes die dokter elke maand sien, verduidelik Swarts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk het haar die volgende oggend vroeg teruggeneem hospitaal toe toe sy weer siek geraak het, en terwyl die land Jeugdag vier, moes Harriet agt ure sit en wag,\u201d vertel Swarts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy verduidelik dat Harriet se <i>internasionale normaliseerde ratio<\/i> (bloeddikte) te hoog was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tydens aanvanklike observasie kon personeel geen bloeddruklesing kry nie, wat reeds die gevaarligte moes laat flikker het, maar steeds het hulle haar laat sit en wag, vertel \u2019n emosionele Swarts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk het n\u00e1 my Jeugdag-toesprake by twee verskillende saamtrekke my vrou gekry waar sy steeds gesit het sonder dat enige dokter al na haar gekyk het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit is waar ek begin uitvaar het teenoor die personeel,\u201d bieg hy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Swarts het Harriet haarself natgemaak, \u201cmaar hulle het gemaak asof sy net \u2019n gewone hoofpyn het\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit is onaanvaarbaar dat pasi\u00ebnte hier so behandel moet word, en ek gaan dit gewis nie so los nie,\u201d s\u00ea Swarts, en blameer die agt uur lange wag en die hospitaal se triage-proses vir Harriet se dood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToe ek \u2019n griefskrif teen hulle ingedien het, het hulle my gebel en ges\u00ea hulle het haar as \u2019n \u2018kode geel\u2019-pasi\u00ebnt, wat nie in lewensgevaar is nie, behandel. 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