Afrigather The mom of a person who Tom London filmed lay dying – and subsequently lined in flies after his loss of life – on the Helen Joseph Hospital has slammed the appalling remedy by employees of the Helen Joseph Hospital.
In a video, Cicilia van Burick shared the horrifying account of getting to say her son’s physique after discovering that he had died in a Fb Dwell video.
Over the weekend, Tom shared his account of leaving the Johannesburg public hospital after he claimed he was “mistreated” by docs. The viral movies have attracted the eye of authorities, together with Gauteng MEC Penyaza Lesufi.
Over the weekend, Tom London gave his Fb followers a have a look at the inhumane remedy he had acquired on the Helen Joseph Hospital. He additionally shared the unhappy story of a person named Nicolaas, who lay dying in a mattress reverse him.
Nicolaas – who was simply 34 years outdated – later died of liver failure, and Tom claims his physique lay for “hours” within the ward.
Photos by way of Fb: Tom London
He additionally claimed that “tons of of flies” had accrued on his physique. He additionally claimed that docs on the hospital had “laughed” after information of Nicolaas’s loss of life.
In an replace, he shared that Nicolaas’s mom, Cicilia van Burick, had contacted him to verify her son’s identification.
In line with Tom, Cicilia had referred to as hospitals and morgues across the nation – together with Helen Joseph Hospital – in the hunt for her lacking son. She was not given any info till she noticed Tom London’s video, the place she instinctively knew that the useless man within the clip was her son.
Chatting with Seen TV, Durban resident Cicilia claimed that after travelling to Helen Joseph Hospital, employees “refused to let her go away except she paid a charge to launch his physique.”
The emotional mom acknowledged that she was not informed what his reason behind loss of life was
“Not even a health care provider got here to inform me [anything]. Not even one stated, ‘I’m sorry, mam, to your loss.”
The hospital mortuary employees lacked empathy as nicely, she added.
“I had to assist the funeral parlour take him out of the fridge and put him on the tray. These folks on the mortuary had been sitting and watching a film.”
That is the man reverse me who died. That is his mother’s story. At the moment we’re going to assist her cowl memorial and cremation prices.
Posted by Tom London on Monday 9 September 2024
HELEN JOSEPH HOSPITAL: MORE SPEAK OUT ON MISTREATMENT
After sharing the video on his Fb account, Tom London acquired dozens of feedback from South Africans who had additionally acquired poor remedy on the Helen Joseph Hospital.
Charmaine Tremper: “My husband was additionally busy dying of liver failure and was mendacity within the passage in emergency. Not been attended to, screaming with ache. We had been lent cash and took him away to a non-public hospital, the place he handed away the identical day.”
Dot Steyn: “We additionally sadly misplaced our mom in 2001 and our father in 2022. And plenty of different members of the family that had no alternative however to go to Helen Joseph “circus” Hospital”
Zandre Bezuidenhout: “My grandma died in that hospital after mendacity in casualty for 4 hours, not receiving any assist. She was screaming in ache”.
Robert Bruce Naysmith: “My dad was in that hospital in March. My dad died two days after the chief neurosurgeon dismissed my dad’s mind tumour ‘as nothing to fret about.’ His post-mortem revealed an reverse story. How do these docs sleep at night time and nonetheless receives a commission?”
Picture: Fb/@HelenJosephHospital
Tom London has vowed to share a number of the donations acquired from the general public with Nicolaas’s mom to help with funeral preparations.
In line with a Fb put up, Nicolaas van Burick can be laid to relaxation on Thursday, 12 September, on the Lede in Christus Church in Krugersdorp.
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