As we have sadly come to expect from state hospitals nowadays, a mother and son from Nelspruit, Annelise de Beer and her son Nathan, had a nightmare experience at their local state hospital in Nelspruit, which caused the unfortunate 11 year old boy a lot of pain.
He broke his wrist at school in September and after hours of waiting in the queue at the hospital, a doctor finally put a splint in under anesthesia, but after the boy woke up another doctor said the hand is still not straight and the splint procedure had to be repeated.
He received anesthesia again but the anesthesia did not kick in and the boy had tremendous pain. After 2 weeks they went back to the hospital and a doctor again said the splint procedure must be redone and again there was no anesthesia.
The boy had tremendous pain yet again and the mother was so shocked that she herself passed out. After 3 weeks they went back to the hospital because the pain had continued and there was swelling. The
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