A WOMAN from Duspan Farm in How Mine allegedly stabbed a male nurse at Mpilo Central Hospital with a used injection needle in anger following the death of her child at the health institution.
BY SILAS NKALA
Sihle Nyathi (36) pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault when she appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Sithembiso Ncube on Monday. The magistrate remanded her to today on free bail.
A medical report produced in court suggested that the nurse could have been infected with HIV.
Prosecutor Petronellah Ngwenya told the court that on August 1 this year, Nyathi and her husband Godfrey Zulu were in ward PICU at Mpilo when their child passed away.
After the child was declared dead, the nurse took the child’s parents for counselling before one S Khumalo broke the news. Nyathi allegedly got confused and tried to run away, but was stopped by the nurse.
She allegedly went to the ward where the child’s body was and started weeping and then went back to the room where the nurse was and threw a used injection needle at him, stabbing him on the right cheek.
