Bed-ridden for 8 years

Monday, June 21, 2010

FRANCISTOWN: The parents of Gontlafetse Sevela, who has spent eight years in Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital after a caesarean operation, have yet to recover from the trauma of that experience. Their daughter may never recover.

At the family home in Tonota last week, the woman's mother still hoped to see her daughter walking independently. Doctors told the parents in 2007 that their daughter would never recover.

The bed-ridden Gontlafetse has been in hospital since December 4, 2002 when she gave birth. She has never met her daughter.

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