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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.