Health Ombudsman says his investigations reveal that patients referred from the Northern Cape Mental Health Hospital to Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital died of hyperthermia; froze to death.

The health Ombudsman has found that some of the patients who had been referred from the Northern Cape Mental Health Hospital to Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospial - and later died of hyperthemia - had literally frozen to death. This is due to electricity cable theft and vandalism. Health Ombud, Professor Taole Mokoena revealed all this while releasing his investigation into the treatment, complications and deaths of psychiatric patients at the two facilities. Professor Mokoena adds that both hospitals lack professional leadership as management was inefficient and ineffective...