Welcome to When Darkness Calls, the Halloween collaboration podcast that will leave you trembling in your seat.

This year, we have 13 participating podcasts, each covering a different topic related to the dark and the dreadful.

Join us on a journey through the forest where the trees whisper secrets

and the shadows dance. As we walk, we will introduce each podcast host and share a taste

of the terrors that await you. First, we come to the clearing where Nicole from True Crime

South Africa sits, her eyes glowing

in the moonlight. Nicole is a master of weaving tales of murder and mayhem, and the tales on this

podcast will chill you to the bone.

I'm Nicole Engelbrecht from True Crime Crime South Africa, and this is the fake pediatrician and the abandoned hospital.

In the 1980s, Kempton Park Hospital was a hub of state healthcare for local residents.

I was actually born in this hospital in September 1980. I could not be happier that I was

born in that year, because just two years later, a man would appear on the doorstep of Kempton Park

Hospital who would leave a very deep scar on its history, and sadly, even ensure that many

parents went home without their newborn babies.

Just a warning before I get into this, this case does include instances of injury and death to children due to inadequate medical care.

Andre Esther Hazen had already built up a good reputation as a paediatrician in private practice in

Kempton Park for two years before he started working at Kempton Park Hospital in 1982.

Parents of his patients had nothing but good things to say about him.

It emerged that the privacy of working in his own rooms had hidden

quite a lot about Esther Hazen though. One fellow doctor at the hospital immediately noticed that

Esther Hazen couldn't perform even the simplest of tasks. He would often ask others to do things like inserts and intubation

tube, something he should have been able to do in his sleep with his amount of experience.

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