A staggering 15 patients die on average each day - 450 people a month - at King Edward Hospital in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. The 231-bed St Mary's Hospital in Mariannhill reports that 50% of its medical admissions are dying, while at the 409-bed Stanger Hospital, 20% of adult medical admissions and a quarter of children don't make it home.
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