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News24 reports that a doctor has been shot during a "violent burglary" at a Free State hospital. The 26-year-old doctor was shot at Mofumahali Manapo Mopeli Regional Hospital in QwaQwa on Tuesday at about 20:00.
Free State Health MEC Mathabo Leeto indicated: "In an unexpected violent burglary incident at the secured doctors' quarters at the hospital precinct by unknown assailants, a doctor fell victim of this near-fatal shooting. The doctor was rushed into theatre and the good news is that none of his vital organs were affected and he is now recovering at the ICU." Leeto added that the incident would be "thoroughly investigated" to allow the provincial health department to tighten security at its facilities. The latest shooting comes only weeks after a security guard was shot dead during a robbery at an Eastern Cape clinic. He was shot during a robbery at Maqanyeni Clinic in Ngqeleni in April, after four men attacked him and his female colleague. The guard's colleague was not injured. In February, a nurse and a security guard were tied up for several hours during a robbery at a clinic in Zigodlo near Qonce, also in the Eastern Cape.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nicole McCain at News24
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