Active since Jan 2022
When you go to hospital you expect that they will take care of a person, not just look after certain issues. My husband was admitted on 18 October and was treated for low blood pressure and I told them about the Diabetic sore on his foot, because he has no feeling in the foot he did not complain about pain. For 3 days I asked the staff to please dress his foot and nothing happened. Only after I complained to management did they actually cleaned and dressed his wound. I had to do it myself every day. They called in the wound specialist, Dr Ethel Andrews who dressed the wound on Friday 21 October. On Saturday I spoke to the sister because I could see that the wound was very wet and soggy. She told me that we must wait until Sunday before we opened that dressing. On Sunday I opened the wound and it was super wet. The skin came off when you touched it. The sore was now about 10 x 12 cm because of the wet skin. The wound specialist was only coming to see him on Tuesday and I would hate to think what it would have looked like if I did not open it on Sunday. This wound was so big that they had to operate on Thursday 27 October leaving my husband with an open wound of 20 x 10 cm on his foot and the operating doctor Dr Uzonwa said that he would rather amputate the foot. This is not the way you treat a paying patient in a private hospital.
Thank you for your wonderful servive at the Lydenburg branch in December 2021 especially Sanet Lotter for arranging finance and delivering my new vehicle in Johannesburg