#48 Kempton Park Hospital
Strange & Unexplained
English - March 01, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutes - 50.3 MBTrue Crime Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Johannesburg, South Africa 1996, the day after Christmas, Kempton Park Hospital closes its doors to the public, citing a shortage of medical staff, promising it was not a permanent closure and it would reopen soon. Just weeks later the staff was informed of their terminations and told to evacuate the premises with all their personal property, they were not coming back. Then the government threw up a fence and security around the property and it has yet to be reopened or even explained. What happened to cause an entire hospital to be left to rot and deteriorate, while the community struggled to find medical treatment?
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Sources:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-17-mn-301-story.html
https://apnews.com/article/28ddf7b9a3674a74c8e096676aaba8df
https://www.enca.com/news/will-kempton-park-hospital-be-re-opened
https://www.infobarrel.com/The_Secret_Stories_Behind_Kempton_Park_Haunted_Hospital_South_Africa