Photos of the shocking conditions in a state day-hospital in Cape Town - a poor testament to the quality of government health care in South Africa

1. The shocking reality of a government day-hospital in Cape Town Health department DGThami Mseleku told MPs in parliament last month that South African hospitals led the world “from a clinical point of view”. Ironically, a visit to the Robbie Nurock Day Hospital -a hospital only a stone’s throw from Parliament showed a facility falling into ruin through shameful neglect. DA MP Mike Waters, upon visiting the hospital declared: “ While the disintegration of any health facility is a disgrace, the fact that a hospital so close to a centre of power should be in such a state shows exactly how blind the ANC is to the conditions faced by the poor.” IS THIS THE HEALTH CARE SOUTH AFRICANS DESERVE?

2. Robbie Nurock Day Hospital – view of weeds, rusted through gutters and cracked walls from courtyard

3. Another view of the courtyard, showing rusted pipes, mould on walls

4. View from inside hospital – crumbling walls

5. Plastic bags covering patient files to protect them from water dripping through roof

6. Cracked walls and mould above the toilet wash basins (no soap available)

7. Hole in the ceiling in main entrance

8. Inside the toilets – missing toilet seat, cracked tiles, dirty and mouldy

9. Cardboard boxes to mop up water from leaking roof

10. Rubbish accumulating in courtyard