Here are my own counts…
One, two, three, four, five per hour.
These are not just the counts but human being bodies.
I was kind like unconscious.
Breathing heavily, eyes ready to blast in tears.
Shaking, fearing and mad when I think she’s on the line to be admitted.
I felt coldness of the Hospital bench.
It was not a cold as ordinary man can think.
It was sharing for me only the sorrow and shame.
Telling me its heavy load that is caring of people’s tears and suffering.
All those people had visited this Hospital.
Watched her on fighting face,
Lying on a bed wished could help her.
As she asked for a help, but that sister was just
Just too busy with other patients to help my lovely mom.
Too busy to help my suffering mom and other old people
i saw them when moving my eyes around.
Till I commanded the sister to accompany my mom to the loo.
Their system made me angry since then.
It was not my first time seeing such a treatment.
Insufficient of integrity, obedient and transparency.
I have seen people dying just in front of my eyes.
Right in our public Hospitals.
I am not ready to see that happening,
Happening with my fellow brothers and sisters.
Not in my South Africa Country.
Doctors why are you failing your own parents so hurting.
Why you are failing your own Country.
Tell me that are all this fatality caused by natural death.
Does diagnosis correct scale to help to cure people all the time.
Are you that busy too to take a patient to all the medical testing steps.
My mother was not the only pensioner who lose her life
because of your careless, self-centered and ignorance.
Do you like it to see all admitted ages continue dying?
Dying because of you lack obedient in your disciplines.
Doctor tell me here…do you benefits from all corpse,
Corps that are in your hospitals.
My government you are in charge maybe,
you can tell me better than my own wonders.
Don’t lie…please don’t lie to your poor guy this time.
On my way out at Mamelodi Hospitals that gate told me everything about the corpse that are passing through the gate.
Tell me…what is it that is killing our people in Hospitals so uncontrollable.
I am the concern patriotic Citizen.
I guess the is a money involved.
Written By Themba Emanuel Mashobane
South Africa – City of Tshwane.
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