NETCARE FAILING, BREACH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

<p>Good day.</p> <p>i would like to express my horrible service at Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial hospital.</p> <p>i ate KFC during the day on the 18th November 2016, i started to feel that something was wrong and developed a cough and swollen eyes, i was not far from the hospital i walked to the hospital, when i got there, i went to reception who sasid he was busy and that i must sit down, i went back 10 minutes later to say that im coughing and m face was swollen, i was told that the triage nurse is unavailable due to them being busy and he was sent to another department, i went right after that.</p> <p>I contacted Netcare Head office and spoke to a lady Mandy tolkien to express my horror, she explained that all emergency department are staffed 24 hours a day with triage officers, and that they dont leave the unit.</p> <p>I would like to know why this happened.</p> <p>Kindly answer via hellopeter as i would like the country to know Netcare floats the Department of health and trauma society rules.</p> <p> </p>