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title: "Musa Mbewe expresses outrage, urges call to action over Bara Hospital healthcare failures"
description: "Reports on Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital’s patient failings have appalled the author and media personality — Part five in our series on Gauteng’s healthcare crisis."
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publisher: "Daily Maverick"
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section: "GROUNDUP VIDEO"
author: "Adel Van Niekerk"
author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/adel-van-niekerk/"
canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-04-28-musa-mbewe-expresses-outrage-urges-call-to-action-over-bara-hospital-healthcare-failures/"
published: "2022-04-28T22:28:45"
lang: "en-ZA"
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# Musa Mbewe expresses outrage, urges call to action over Bara Hospital healthcare failures

> Reports on Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital’s patient failings have appalled the author and media personality — Part five in our series on Gauteng’s healthcare crisis.

By Adel Van Niekerk · Published 29 April 2022, 00:28 SAST

## Content

[YouTube video: "YouTube video player"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKa9FjpZ5XI)

For Soweto-based author and media personality Musa Mbewe, who has been advocating for years for better public health care, reports of [bread shortages](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-03-10-doctors-bring-lunch-for-hungry-patients-as-chris-hani-baragwanath-hospital-reaches-crisis-point/) at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital came as a shock.

She calls for heads to roll.

*First published by*[*GroundUp*](https://www.groundup.org.za/article/video-bara-hospital-fails-patients/)*.*

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