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Pray that you never end up in one of South Africa’s hospitals!!!
CLEANER POLISHES OFF PATIENTS
“For several months, our nurses have been baffled to
find a patient dead in the same bed every Friday
morning” a spokeswoman for the Pelonomi Hospital
(Free State, South Africa) told reporters. “There was
no apparent cause for any of the deaths, and extensive
checks on the air conditioning system, and a search for
possible bacterial infection, failed to reveal any clues.
However, further inquiries have now revealed the cause
of these deaths. It seems that every Friday morning a
cleaning lady would enter the ward, remove the plug that
powered the patient’s life support system, plug her
floor polisher into the vacant socket, then go about her
business. When she had finished her chores, she would

plug the life support machine back in and leave,
unaware that the patient was now dead. She could not,
after all, hear the death rattle and eventually the solid
beep over the whirring of her polisher. We are sorry,
and have sent a strong letter to the cleaner in question.
Further, the Free State Health and Welfare Department
is arranging for an electrician to fit an extra socket, so
there should be no repetition of this incident. The inquiry
is now closed.”
(Cape Times)
“Darwin’s theory of evolution suggests that first came the baboon
and then man. Politics is proving that it can go either way.”
mariusc@…
Marius Calitz
P.O.Box 7300
Newcastle
2940
KZN
Republic of South Africa

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