Tue, 23 May 2017 06:17:48 +0000 Dear Editor, People have ceaselessly complained of negligence and bad attitude of some of our nurses and for sure I experienced and saw it last Friday. Imagine my sister gave birth around 07.00hrs but there was a complication and needed to be referred to UTH. But by 19.00 hours the nurses were still waiting for the consultant to give a final say. And because of bad attitude they couldn’t pay attention to my sister who kept telling them that she was feeling weak. The nurses were only too eager to discharge her. It was at this point that my mother forced her way into the labour ward because the nurses and maids had initially refused her entry. My mother stormed the maternity ward around 14.00hrs and looked for my sister only to find her on a floor and looking very weak with a lot of blood on the mattress. […]
Neglected mother dies at Chilenje first level hospital maternity ward
