{"id":223546,"date":"2022-05-04T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/video-her-aunt-was-tied-to-bench-in-hospital-so-virginia-keppler-took-on-gauteng-health-system\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T08:55:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:55:54","slug":"video-her-aunt-was-tied-to-a-bench-in-a-hospital-so-virginia-keppler-took-on-the-gauteng-health-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/video-her-aunt-was-tied-to-a-bench-in-a-hospital-so-virginia-keppler-took-on-the-gauteng-health-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Her aunt was tied to a bench in a hospital, so Virginia Keppler took on the Gauteng health system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/video-her-aunt-was-tied-to-a-bench-in-a-hospital-so-virginia-keppler-took-on-the-gauteng-health-system.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>76-year-old Martha Marais was tied to a bench in Mamelodi Hospital in 2018. Her niece Virginia Keppler has subsequently become an outspoken activist for a better Gauteng health system. Keppler describes the battle she is fighting to hold health workers accountable for the way they treat patients.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article_copyright\">\n<p>\u00a9 2022 GroundUp. This article is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may republish this article, so long as you credit the authors and GroundUp, and do not change the text. Please include a link back to the original article.<\/p>\n<p>We put an invisible pixel in the article so that we can count traffic to republishers. All analytics tools are solely on our servers. We do not give our logs to any third party. Logs are deleted after two weeks. We do not use any IP address identifying information except to count regional traffic. 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