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.