Infant deaths spark protests

Johannesburg – Cecelia Makiwane Hospital in East London was again the scene of anger and protest on Tuesday, following the death of four babies at the hospital last week, the SABC reported.

The incubators and ventilators that had kept the babies alive shut down during a power outage last weekend, and a stand-by generator did not kick in.

It was established that it was an isolated power interruption to ward 17, where the babies were being kept.

About 200 members of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protested outside the hospital and like the families they want answers.

South African Press Association