Charlotte Maxeke hospital: some good news, but worries remain

Section27 has welcomed the reopening of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, but the public interest law centre’s head of health, Sasha Stevenson, says it is worried that psychiatric services at the hospital may be reinstated only at the end of 2023.

Section27 wrote to the department of health on May 4 with suggestions on how to resolve the issue of psychiatric bed shortages at Helen Joseph. It is waiting for a response. The hospital’s accident and emergency unit was scheduled to start operating at 40%-50% of capacity on May 11. Three of the unit’s seven areas have been opened. The rest will be opened next week, once the crucial CT scanner is online and operational.

The national health department took over repairs from the Gauteng department of infrastructure development on March 4. At a portfolio committee of the latter in March, it was announced that the provincial department had overspent on Charlotte Maxeke by 138%, with a completion rate of 72%. “It is important for the health department to address the issue of theft and vandalism since the CT scanner was vandalised during a time when security was beefed up thanks to a security budget,” said Mokwena.

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