A NORTHERN Province hospital patient disappeared from his bed on Saturday only to be found dead behind the hospital four days later. Motshine Pheeha (31) of Inveran village was found dead in a trench near the perimeter fence behind Helena Frans Hospital in Bochum on Wednesday morning. Pheeha had been admitted to the hospital with bronchial pneumonia on July 3. He disappeared on Saturday night, said health department spokesman Charley Nkadimeng. For the next four days, family members, hospital security guards and police searched for him. “It was only on Wednesday morning that the guards found the body in a trench,” Nkadimeng said. “He had no visible wounds so we don’t yet know the cause of death.” – African Eye News Service