Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 19-10-2018
The Gauteng Social Development department says the drug rehab centre where a 40-year-old man was assaulted and later died in hospital is operating illegally and is in the process of shutting down the facility.
Muhammad Sheikh was admitted to the crescent of hope facility last month where he was allegedly assaulted by staff and patients.
The Lenasia father died from his injuries on Sunday at the Ahmed Kathrada Private Hospital after spending two weeks in a coma.
The Social Development Department says it found the facility’s registration as an inpatient treatment centre lapsed in January 2017 and also found that procedures followed leading to the Sheiks death were flawed.
It says the centre is ill-equipped to operate as an in-patient treatment centre in terms of the prevention and treatment of drug dependency act.
The Social Development Department’s Mbangwa Xaba says Sheikh should not have died seeking help from substance abuse at the centre.
“The process of shutting it down has already commenced. The centre is not allowed to take any more patients. Those that are there, their family members are urged to not to send anybody there and if they are able to move their people to properly compliant medical centres to do so.”
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