Dead: Middelburg Hospital mistreats Afrikaner Johan Duminey 64: who dies after doctor cannot read another doctor's Afrikaans Language Report
The son of Johan Duminey, 64 who died in Witbank hospital after he was misdiagnosed due to a language misunderstanding, is bitter about the fact that after his father was misdiagnosed at the Middelburg Hospital,
he wasn't treated immediately at the Witbank Hospital where he was transferred to."I am besides myself,' cried Tommie Duminey on Wednesday-afternoon after the death of his father.
Tommie over the past five years have also suffered the deaths of his mom Doreen, and then his brother Deon 39.
The late Johan Duminy, who was the manager at the private farming group EDE Farming, was first taken to Middelburg Hospital with a 'tremendous stomach pain'.
Tommie was contacted by his wife Ronel who let him know that his dad was hospitalised 'for a stomach ulcer'.
However when Tommie arrived there and read the bed-letter, it read that he was being treated for 'gastro' and a doctor told them that the father's small intestine was perforated that that they had to rush him to Witbank Hospital for emergency surgery.
Arriving at Witbank Hospital, their ordeal continued: 'We tried to explain to personnel that my dad's condition was serious and that he needed surgery at once'.
The family was shocked when the doctor on duty told them that 'he doesn't understand the Afrikaans report by the Middelburg doctor and that he will do his own tests'.
And what made matters worse was that an Afrikaner nurse who stood nearby, and with whom the son pleaded to translate the Afrikaans report -- refused to do so.
Meanwhile the father was left inside the trauma ward with other patients and another Afrikaner nurse ordered the family to leave 'because it isn't visiting hour' while hordes other patients were left sitting next to their family members at their bedside,' said Tommie.
‘n Afrikaanse suster daar naby gestaan en hy het by haar gepleit om dit vir die dokter te vertaal, maar sy het geweier.
The Duminy couple stood around outside watching their father through the window - but they were even chased away there and forced to drive back to Middelburg.
They were contacted at 23h00 by the doctor advising them they would be 'operating now' - and Tommie chased back to the hospital but found that his dad was already in theatre.
And when he was rolled outside the son was denied access to his father by rude hospital personnel.
"They even locked the doors to the wards so that I couldn't see my father. I wasn't rude nor fighting with them, I was asking nicely'.
In the hallway he ran into a doctor who claimed that 'everything went well during surgery' and that his father was 'put on a ventilator because he suffered an astma attack
during surgery, but that he was doing allright'.
At around 04h50am the son was told that his father had died - 'without me ever being allowed to see him after surgery.'
Mr Duminy is survived by his second wife Elize, sons Tommie and Johan, grandchildren and daughters-in-law.
The funeral was scheduled for friday 11h00 from the Old Apostolic Church however Tommie still was trying to decide whether he should have an independent post-mortem examination of his father's body performed before the funeral.
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