Visitor exposes Marina as death-trap

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe | Monday January 26, 2015 17:00

 

The visitor, Gontle Kwelo would later chronicle his  shocking discovery on his Facebook page which soon  went viral as close to 400 people had shared his Facebook post, which also attracted close to 300 likes by the weekend.

In a rare twist a Princess Marina spokesman Donnell Kutlapye had to use the same social media post to assure  enraged Batswana that management of the hospital had already contacted the whistle-blower and that  Princess Marina was handling the matter with urgency. However the man behind the expose has told the Monitor  that a number of the hospital’s bosses had been bashing him for the expose, saying he could have just stopped at reporting to management instead of exposing their negligence to the public.

“ They are not happy. I  was upset because I asked them for information about the victim and they would not share with me. It is not that I did not report to management.  I learnt that there was no matron in that male ward that night. I had to report the matter to a senior person over-seeing the female medical ward opposite that ward and she was furious with those nurses”, Gontle told  The Monitor.

Gontle, a Limkokwing tourism graduate,  now IT sales executive, narrated how he and some five  security guards had to come to the rescue of the patient  after he had fallen head down after kicking helplessly while the nurses just did not care.  The patient  died  moments later after the doctors had been called.  

Gontle would later tell The Monitor, “ The doctors who came frantically started to insert certain pipes which had accidentally disconnected from him. He had an oxygen mask on his face and some  equipment besides his bed which seemed to help him cope but somehow I think they got disconnected but the nurses could have detected this in their routine visits, obviously. The patient had earlier indicated  he needed urgent assistance as it appeared something  wrong had gone with his life support equipment. The patient, who appeared to have been struggling  for breath, was kicking with his air-musk on before he fell  head down from the bed.”  As he was arguing with the  nurses to help, Gontle claims the nurses ordered him to leave the hospital since  he had entered the ward outside the visiting hours.

However, the five security guards who were  ordered to chase him out instead joined forces with Gontle to try and help the helpless patient before he died moments later.

“ I visited the hospital again today, I still have not managed to get the name of that victim, but I have been told he was from Gabane. He is currently in the hospital mortuary”, Gontle added.