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In the eight years since the Gauteng health department ended its contract with a private psychiatric hospital group, Life Esidimeni, to look after long-term state mental health patients, a tragedy of 144 people dying and 44 going missing at the hands of “an admittedly delinquent provincial government” has unfolded.

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#LifeEsidimeni: What will arbitration mean for the families?

Laura López González speaks to Tim Modise about who might be held accountable for the tragedy.

Dylan Bush was a health journalist at Bhekisisa from February 2016 to September 2023.

Laura Lopez Gonzalez is a freelance health journalist and editor. She was Bhekisisa's news editor, then deputy editor between 2016 and 2020.

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