Elderly Anna-Marie Buys has tragically died in the Helen Joseph hospital in Auckland Park, JHB, on Thursday morning, 19 December, after she sustained serious injuries to her neck, when a black female patient had sat on top of her and started to cut her neck with a plastic knife, on Saturday 14 December. The motive is still unclear.
The husband of Anna-Marie was never informed of the incident and he had to find out for himself. The nursing staff also told the family that a doctor would only be available to look at the injury on 17 December because of the long weekend. Anna-Marie, who was in her late seventies and suffered from lung and brain cancer, sustained serious neck injuries on Saturday around 01:45 when a black female patient climbed on top of her and started to saw her neck with a plastic knife. The incident was also witnessed by another fellow patient.
Anna-Marie was paralyzed in the left side of her body due to a stroke she suffered, so could not defen
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