Charlotte Maxeke Hospital reeling after weekend blaze

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Desperate patients continue to arrive at Johannesburg's Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital. It's been closed after a fire tore through the facility.

The fire at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital shocked many. Some reports suggest there were no working fire hydrants at the hospital, and that there was a general lack of maintenance. eNCA's Masego Rahlaga reports. Courtesy ofSome reports suggest there were no working fire hydrants at the hospital and that there was a general lack of maintenance.Firefighters took two days to extinguish the blaze, and patients were evacuated from the Johannesburg hospital.

Gauteng Premier David Makhura announced on Saturday that the hospital would be closed for seven days.

 

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Sibonga kakhulu TTM🙏🏽

The Jo burg general hospital was a well run hospital then the ANC decolonised it to the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital and now no maintenance, no working fire hydrant. What were we expecting to happen?

Cyril Ramaphosa just two weeks back celebrates what an empire or strong hold of a woman Charlotte Maxeke was, if Cyril Ramaphosa visited that named hospital I wonder what he would say, this is utter disgust as nothing works fully that hospital meaning literally nothing, disgust

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