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More than a year after the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital was gutted by fire, Minister of Health Joe Phaahla officially reopened the facility’s emergency unit on Monday but said no walk-in patients were being allowed yet.

Promises that the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital would be reopened by the end of April have come to nought. The hospital was gutted by a fire over a year ago.

The DA in Gauteng says the time for excuses about Charlotte Maxeke Hospital is over.

Food supply disruptions are reportedly affecting patients at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg. 



DA Gauteng health spokesperson Jack Bloom says South Rand Hospital patients have suffered as surgeries have been delayed, and some patients have had to be sent to other hospitals for emergency procedures.

Health Minister Joe Phaahla announced that his department had taken over the responsibility of getting Charlotte Maxeke hospital up and running.

Gauteng hospitals are in such bad condition that it will cost about R6bn to make them compliant with the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

EMBASSIES identified to be billed for foreign patients treated in Gauteng hospitals have refused to take financial responsibility.

The CEO of Rahima Moosa Hospital says the video showing pregnant women sleeping on the floor was staged by opposition parties.

The Democratic Alliance in Gauteng has slammed Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital CEO, Nozuko Mkabayi for working from home   The hospital