A woman who was turned away from two state hospitals in Gauteng on Monday after she was hit by a car in Sandton has died.

Paramedics struggled to find a state facility which would admit Mavis Ncube after she was critically injured in the accident.

Ncube was turned away from the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic and Helen Joseph hospitals because they did not have capacity to admit her.

Paramedics took her to the Morningside Clinic for immediate treatment while they looked for a public hospital that would admit her.

Her employer Nancy Turners said Ncube died at the Morningside Clinic a short while ago, leaving everyone in shock.

"I'm absolutely devastated. It was such a pointless death it and didn’t need to have happened, it could have been avoided," a distraught Turner said.

It comes as the Gauteng Health Department confirmed several public hospitals in the province decided not to go on strike.

Health professionals in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal downed tools several days ago sparking fears the mass action would spread to other provinces.

Some doctors in the Western Cape have not turned up for work and doctors are demanding a 50 percent salary increase along with the implementation of the Occupation Specific Dispensation.

Last week, they rejected government’s revised offer of between 19 and 60 percent.

Eyewitness News

RSS
Digg
de.li.cious
facebook
Week in Quotes Pimped car The ANC has no interest in porn; the JSC is impartial; and the SABC wants public thanks...
The iafrica.com debate Money going down the drain Should politicians be entitled to excessive luxury? Ebrahim Moolla takes on Rebekah Kendal...
Quirky & Bizarre Bulldog Do you need a laugh? Then check out our offbeat stories from around the world...