Patients paid the price as colostomy bags ran out at Gauteng

From around March to June this year, there was a shortage of colostomy bags at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. This meant that public sector patients were, at times, sent home with too few or the wrong bags. Thabo Molelekwa reports.

Patients paid price as colostomy bags ran out at Gauteng hospital

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