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Eastern Cape Health MEC, Sicelo Gqobana, has ordered a probe into the kiling of a patient in provincial hospital by another patient.
The incident happened at the All Saints Hospital in Engcobo on Friday.
The Bisho Health Department says the 37-year-old patient was assaulted with an iron rod by a 22-year-old man admitted for epilepsy.
Spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, says the Eastern Cape Health Department will pay for the funeral of the murder victim.
Kupelo said Health MEC Sicelo Gqobana visited the hospital and met the doctors. He also met both of the patients' families.
"The MEC has appointed a team to investigate how one patient managed to assault and kill another, why did the alleged killer
suddenly go on a violent rampage, and also find out what it that the two men had to smoke in the toilets the night before."
The department had undertaken to pay for the funeral, he said.
