Panic as health facilities' taps run dry

By Keletso Mkhwanazi, Noxolo Sibiya and Penwell Dlamini - 01 February 2023 - 08:31

Daniel Boysen hurries into Kalafong Hospital carrying two plastic bags filled with water bottles for his wife who had just given birth to a premature baby. 

She suffers from high blood pressure and had begged her husband to bring her water as she did not have the strength to walk to the water tanker that had parked inside the hospital's yard where some patients had queued with bottles to collect water. ..

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