ANOTHER little boy has been left paralysed and brain damaged after undergoing surgery to repair a broken arm at Mpumalanga’s “hospital of hell”. Provincial health authorities have tried to cover up the maltreatment, ordering families not to speak to the press and lying about subsequent therapy. Thirteen-year-old Bheki Mokoena broke his arm in 1996 and was rushed to Themba Hospital near White River where two bungled operations left him severely paralysed and brain-damaged. An even younger boy, Zweli Methule, was also brain damaged while in surgery for a broken arm in 1996. – African Eye News Service