Patient left permanently blind in one eye after waiting six months for surgery at a South African hospital

Patient left permanently blind in one eye after waiting six months for surgery at a South African hospital

A patient has been left permanently blind in their right eye after waiting for six months for retinal surgery at Steve Biko Academic Hospital’s Eye Clinic in Tshwane.

 

[Heisenborg]

Lekka ragebait article

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

another JHB general hospital success story?
or is it the hospital renamed to something else to avoid the stigma

 

[Hemi300c]

NHI will fix this

 

[biena]

another JHB general hospital success story?
or is it the hospital renamed to something else to avoid the stigma

Wrong city.

Steve Biko Academic Hospital was previously called Pretoria Academic Hospital, and before that, H.F. Verwoerd Hospital. Its earliest origins trace back to the Pretoria General Hospital

A detached retina is not fun but hey at least not blind you have 2 eyes, you do lose depth perception and will be walkings into thing on the blind side as your brain lies to you and say nothing is there. Will have to relearn to drive, a LOT more head movement needed to cover the blind spots.

And what **** reporting is this ? AI hallucination's ?

A patient has been left permanently blind in their right eye

A procedure was only recently performed at Mamelodi Eye Clinic to try to save his left eye.

AI hallucination ?

 

[Bad Ballie]

And if the ANC get their way then soon you will be paying more out of your monthly salary to pay for this level of non-service.

 

[creeper]

I’m recovery from a retinal detachment. Not fun at all. But if it doesn’t reach the nerve, there is hope for a recovery. Still. Waiting 6 months for an operation that is seen as urgent (but not life threatening) is unacceptable. At best, they should’ve referred the person to another hospital.