{"id":8848,"date":"2017-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=020caeaad427012b042b806fd4bd4ee8"},"modified":"2017-03-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:00:00","slug":"tribunal-appointed-to-process-appeals-on-report-of-deaths-of-mental-health-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/tribunal-appointed-to-process-appeals-on-report-of-deaths-of-mental-health-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIBUNAL APPOINTED TO PROCESS APPEALS ON REPORT OF DEATHS OF MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"
South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has appointed an independent ad-hoc tribunal to process all appeals relating to the Health Ombudsman’s report into the deaths of 100 mental health patients. <\/P>
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The Appeals Tribunal will be headed by retired Judge President of the Gauteng High Court, Bernard Ngoepe to hear appeals relating to the deaths of more than 100 mentally-ill patients who died after they were moved from Life Esidimeni centres to various facilities run by non-governmental organizations across Gauteng Province. <\/P>
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“The Minister of Health has appointed the Ad-hoc Tribunal to look into the appeals that come through so that they process those kinds of appeals,” Health Department Spokesman Joe Maila said here Monday. <\/P>
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“We received some appeals therefore the minister today (Monday) officially appointed the tribunal to process those issues. We believe that they need to wrap up their work within two months.”<\/P>
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Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK<\/P>
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South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has appointed an independent ad-hoc tribunal to process all appeals relating to the Health Ombudsman’s report into the deaths of 100 mental health patients. The Appeals Tribunal will be headed by retired J…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n