(a) The table below reflects the details in this regard.
PROVINCE |
ADMISSIONS |
Eastern Cape |
284 |
Other provinces do not collect this information as the boys arrive at health facilities as general patients and not as initiates. The Eastern Cape Province is able to collect the information because the boys are brought by members of initiation monitoring teams at hospitals.
(b) The types of injuries suffered by the initiates in this period requiring them to be hospitalised were as follows:
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