Gvt shifts duty of care to underpaid public sector doctors.

All three deaths, a mother and one of her twins at the Odi Primary health care centre near Pretoria and a woman whose uterus ruptured at the Mafikeng Hospital, happened during a ‘go slow’ and a wildcat (unprotected) strike by doctors at these respective institutions. The illicit industrial action ran from 16 to 28 April, when the remaining strikers agreed to return to work and use recognised bargaining channels in future in return for the downgrading of their dismissal notices to final written warnings.