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SowetanLive reports that staff at Chiawelo clinic in Soweto on Tuesday morning barred patients from getting in, saying they feared for their lives after a robbery at the facility.
A resident said that some 10 men, posing as crime prevention wardens, stormed the clinic at about 1am and beat up and robbed a doctor of R1,000. Emergency personnel were also robbed. A security guard, who was off duty, said: “The guards who were on duty last night said they did not suspect anything when the suspects came into the clinic as they were used to having patrollers coming in.” Staff then closed the entrance, refusing to allow patients in. “They told us that they will not assist us because they fear for their lives because their staff members were robbed at gunpoint. They said the robbers took cellphones, wallets and one doctor was assaulted,” said patient Nompi Maziya. The clinic was reopened just after 10am after a staff meeting.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nandi Ntini at SowetanLive
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