Government doctors are “playing God” daily, having to decide which critically ill children will get a chance to live.

Restricted by a severe bed shortage in intensive care units for children, paediatricians at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, in Johannesburg, send at least one severely ill child who needs specialised care to a general ward every day.

“Children die because there are not enough ICU beds,” said Professor Vic Davies, head of the paediatric intensive care and neonatal unit at Charlotte Maxeke.

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