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NEW MOTHERS ARE LIVING IN HOSPITAL HELL

Mothers who have just undergone Caesarean section at Frere Hospital in East London are allegedly made to sleep on mattresses on the floor while they wait for their babies in the intensive care unit (ICU), and are left to tend to their own wounds.

Instead of recovering comfortably on hospital beds, the mothers are made to sleep on mattresses in a small hospital room, where it is also impossible to practice social distancing.

City Press has seen pictures purported to have been taken in the hospital room where a group of women can be seen on mattresses on the floor in

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