Pic: Chris Collingridge

Pippie’s “day daddy”, paediatric ICU nurse Simphiwe Mabaso, spooned chocolate custard into the toddler’s mouth. He lovingly wiped the excess from around the lips of the little burn victim, coaxing her when she wouldn’t open wide.

Mabaso, Pippie Kruger’s favourite day nurse, was among a host of Netcare Garden City Hospital staff members who needed to say goodbye to Pippie today as she left the hospital after seven months. She was taken to the Netcare rehabilitation centre in Auckland Park.

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