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Staff from the CMAH were relocated to Steve Biko Hospital to give assistance.
Calls for the Gauteng health department to expand capacity by organising cancer radiation treatment in the evenings and over weekends, as well as by paying private hospitals to treat public patients for cancer, have since been growing.
Maseba said delays in reopening the hospital were a result of having to comply with national building regulations as and the city bylaws.
He said that the oncology department would be fully functional again once the city of Johannesburg had given its approval after work is completed in the next few days.
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For the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa, the halls of the country’s hospitals were filled with hope again as health workers welcomed the roll-out of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and lined up to get their jab.
Health workers were feeling a mixture of hope and reticence, psychiatrist Dr Zukiswa Zingela said on Friday.
Zingela started Team Sisonke during the pandemic, a project to support the mental health of healthcare workers while they were battling two waves of the pandemic.
The protocol for the roll-out of the vaccine is also called Sisonke, meaning “we are in this together”.
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