The Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital pacemaker lab has been declared structurally unsafe
This was according to spokesperson for the MEC for the Gauteng department of infrastructure development, Bongiwe Gambu, who cited leaks above the cardiac theatre as one of the reasons the unit has become high-risk.
According to Gambu, the flooding that occurred in the cardiac unit was due to a contractor working on the plumbing system without isolating the water supply, adding that “some of the leakages date back as far as two to three months, due to acts of vandalism in the interfloors.” Coetzee added that by virtue of the hospital being an old building, it did not comply with those by-laws. This was only discovered after it reopened and those by-laws now apply.On April 16, a blaze, in which an estimated R23 million worth of personal protective equipment and other medical items were destroyed, took hold of a section of the hospital. A decision was made to shut it down and transfer patients to other medical facilities.
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