The positive points about Dora Nginza hospital

At the beginning of March the public health care in Nelson Mandela Bay was facing an unprecedented collapse, with wide spread allegations of preventable death. One of these public health was Dora Nginza hospital .Dora Nginza hospital is one of the biggest hospital in Nelson Mandela Bay. The maternity ward at Dora Nginza made some those headlines for all the wrong reasons following horror stories from mothers who blame staff for complications arising with the birth of their babies.

The positive change has start arising in Dora Nginza`s maternity ward. Mothers who just gave birth and those who haven’t gave birth yet admitted that there is change. They receive treatment.The nurses are treating them well and their babies were born without complications.The two mothers that were not happy about the way that things went during labor.A 32 year old woman that gave birth to the twins , just find out when she was in labor that the other twin is dead.”Im not blaming them but etleast I should have known if there was something wrong with my baby earlier but the other one is alive” says the twin’s mother




A nurse waiting for a baby in the nursery ward picture by Asanda Xongo      

 

''Our maternity is the only one that is used in all of these towns around Port Elizabeth ,Uitenhage, Grahamstown up to Graff Reinett all these towns come here. The problem that sometimes we are dealing with is clinics. Clinics keep patients that needs hospital help and on the last minute when they see there’s nothing they can do they send them to us by the time they get here there’s a little that we can do. If you can look at the files of the patient, Patients arrive at about the time we`ve called them .There are patients that come here at 12 o` clock 30 minutes later they are dead because there was nothing to be done somebody else held that patient somewhere for too long.When you know you are pregnant you’re got to attend a clinic.” Says Mr Yoyo director 

Moerida Bell, a mother of 5 says it was the first time she gave birth in a public hospital and she doesn’t find any difference.

‘’My baby is fine, she was underweight but the nurses have taken a very good care of her. I blame the people that come here they don’t appreciate the service and they make it very difficult for the nurses. They don’t listen’ ’says Moerida         

Some mothers don’t attend clinics for check-ups some of them  come here with high blood pressure, diabetes and HIV already on stage 4 what can anybody do ,what you can do? So all of those people are the ones that are pushing up the statistics of people who are dying here .Most of the women that gave birth here are those who are HIV positive .They give birth to premature babies, some weight 200g to 400g.