{"id":167691,"date":"2020-10-05T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/alleged-tara-rape-should-also-be-investigated\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:51:19","slug":"alleged-tara-rape-should-also-be-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/alleged-tara-rape-should-also-be-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Tara rape should also be investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/alleged-tara-rape-should-also-be-investigated\/\">Alleged Tara rape should also be investigated<\/a>: <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"simple-love-fix\" data-id=\"1902\" value=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p>The Gauteng Health Department has indicated that it is probing two alleged rapes at public health facilities &#8211; one at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital that involves two male mental health patients, and another incident at Stanza Bopape clinic in Tshwane where a male staff nurse allegedly raped a male patient.<\/p>\n<p>I am concerned that there may be a cover-up of another alleged rape which I am informed took place at the Tara Mental Hospital on 16 September. This involved a 15-year-old female outpatient who came with her parents for therapy and was allegedly raped by another patient when she went out for fresh air.<\/p>\n<p>These incidents raise questions yet again about the adequacy of security at Gauteng public health facilities, especially for mental health patients.<\/p>\n<p>It is inexcusable that hospital security contracts that were irregularly awarded in 2014 for a two-year period have been extended month-by-month for four years at a cost of more than R2.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>New security contracts need to be awarded as soon as possible to competent security companies that better protect patients and staff from all forms of violence at our public hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Bloom MPL<\/strong><br \/> <em>DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/alleged-tara-rape-should-also-be-investigated\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged Tara rape should also be investigated: Dear Johannesburg The Gauteng Health Department has indicated that it is probing two alleged rapes at public health facilities &#8211; one at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital that involves two male mental health patients, and another incident at Stanza Bopape clinic in Tshwane where a male staff nurse allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[6357,6354,13570,4260,4017,32972],"class_list":{"0":"post-167691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-alleged","8":"tag-also","9":"tag-investigated","10":"tag-rape","11":"tag-should","12":"tag-tara","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}