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Dr Kathryn Smith, an interdisciplinary visual and forensic artist and chairperson of the Visual Arts Department at the university, said the number of missing and unidentified bodies lying in laboratories across the country was closer to 10000 bodies each year.
A lack of funds, load shedding, no beds for the intensive and high care units, and industrial action are some factors that led to the cancellation of more than 2 000 operations at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital in less than 18 months.
The party says that since the start of 2022, at least 2 218 operations have been cancelled or deferred by the hospital that was damaged by a fire in 2021.
The DA has raised concerns about the delayed disciplinary cases against Tembisa Hospital CEO Dr Ashley Mthunzi and suspended CFO Lerato Madyo.
Provincial health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko considers holding hospital CEO's more accountable for medico-legal claims when she presented a budget vote speech at the Gauteng legislature on Thursday.