Townhill Hospital to be Investigated

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - Allegations of abuse and neglect at Townhill Hospital have prompted the health department to appoint a three-person investigating team. The mental facility's record of negligence took a turn for the worse last week when yet another patient was reported missing. "Veronica Mondi went missing from the psycho-geriatric ward and the hospital had the dog unit out to look for her," said a source close to the hospital. In another incident, Bhekisile Dlamini was trying to escape from a seclusion room in one of the hospital's high security female sections when she strangled herself by accident.

A dog unit?, but there's more ....

One person describer the place as follows: "Some staff members still come to work drunk, they hit the patients and eat their food. How can they have children at a place like this?"

It is also alleged that in June last year a patient was sexually molested by other patients in a gruesome incident.