Fire hydrants at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital were fine at last inspection, says health department

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An inspection at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital was done in October/November last year and there were “no findings”, said Gauteng health spokesperson Kwara Kekana.

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No issues were reported during the last inspection at Johannesburg's Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, and its fire hydrants were operational, says the Gauteng department of health. Spokesperson Kwara Kekana said safety officers for the department of infrastructure development conduct inspections twice a year at hospitals.

She said information received from this department was that an inspection at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital was done in October/November last year and there were “no findings”.Wynand Engelbrecht, the CEO of Fire Ops SA, a private company that took part in the firefighting operation, said at the weekend the hospital'sThe fire broke out at 11.30am on Friday, and at 9.

. But Engelbrecht disputed this. He said he would write to the ministers of health, co-operative governance and public works to call for a “complete revamp” of the Parktown hospital's fire protection system.TimesLIVE

 

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October is a lung time ago - not even monthly inspections ? Njani? How ? Bjang ?

Oh I don't believe that crap..

They must just stop messing around, for the mere fact the hospital is closed due to a major fire 🔥 incident means that the measures that were supposedly put in have failed. Zero findings should bear Zero incidents. Fire the auditors and review safety....

Then they won't have a problem releasing the certificates, right?

I wonder if Zuma is going to be blamed by whites and Ramaphosa Defence Force for this one.

of course they'd say that.

Ridiculous .

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