COP ALLEGEDLY DENIED TREATMENT, DIES FROM SPIDER BITE

PIGG’S PEAK – It was not just a threat, it appears nurses were serious about not attending to police officers.

Constable Matikweni Peter Nyatsi, who was a police officer based at Matsamo Border Gate, has allegedly become a victim of this. Nyatsi is said to have died after a wound he sustained from a spider bite went septic. It was gathered that he complained of having been bitten while at his house at a place known as Msahweni near Matsamo.  At the time of the bite, he was not sure what had bitten him.

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Later, after a thorough check in the house, it was discovered that he had been bitten by a rain spider. Rain spiders are very common around the area. Nyatsi is then alleged to have gone for treatment at Emkhuzweni Health Centre, but he was allegedly denied treatment because he was a police officer. Nurses recently took a stand not to treat police officers after recent alleged shooting incidents. The latest shooting incident is said to have happened at Nkoyoyo, where nurses and other civil servants aboard a bus had tear gas thrown inside.

After not being assisted at Emkhuzweni, Nyatsi is said to have gone to Pigg’s Peak Government Hospital, but he was also not assisted. The wound he sustained from the spider bite had already become septic. Nyatsi is then said to have gone to a military hospital at Phocweni where he was seen by a doctor. He was also administered with antibiotics and the wound was cleaned and dressed but it was already too late. Some of his colleagues described Nyatsi as a man who was down to earth to the point that one would not even realise he was a police officer. He was also described as a loving father.

Other residents of Pigg’s Peak and Buhleni decried his demise. Nyatsi’s son also confirmed his death. He also confirmed that he had been bitten by a spider, but was advised that spiders do not have venom that can kill. Meanwhile, Thea Litschka-Koen, who is from the Eswatini Antivenom Foundation, said from the image she received from the family, the spider which bit Nyatsi was a rain spider. She said rain spiders did not have venom.

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