600 patients wait for wheelchairs at Gauteng hospitals
26 March 2023
Six hundred disabled people are waiting for wheelchairs at Gauteng hospitals, mostly because of delayed wheelchair deliveries.
This is revealed by Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo Ralehoko in a written reply to my questions in the Gauteng Legislature.
The largest shortage is at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital where there are 253 patients on the waiting list for wheelchairs. Reasons given are as follows:
Delays in ordering processes, delayed deliveries of wheelchairs by the supplier.