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The Democratic Alliance is disappointed that the Accident and Emergency Unit at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital (CMJH) is not fully reopened this week, but will only accept patients in a phased manner, mostly because the CT Scanner has not yet been repaired. This highlights the need for proper security as the Scanner was vandalised despite R40 million spent annually on security at the hospital.

The emergency unit at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital will reopen in phases starting from Friday, says health minister Joe Phaahla.

One year after the fire at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Johannesburg Hospital, there’s damning evidence of missteps and delays in maintaining health and safety standards, and sabotage and incompetence in managing the rebuild. With dire knock-on effects for the province’s healthcare system.

Saturday marks exactly a year since parts of the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital were gutted by a blaze – and the facility is nowhere near full functionality.

Hoodlums on Thursday, attacked doctors, nurses and some other staff on duty at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Osun State University, Teaching