5 hour waiting time at Bara hospital
2 October 2019
Patients at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital can expect to wait 5 hours to receive a file, see a doctor and get their medicine.
This was revealed by Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku in a written reply to my questions in the Gauteng Legislature.
The average recorded waiting times at the hospital in August this year were as follows:
To receive a file --> |
29 minutes |
Medical outpatients |
185 minutes (3 hours 5 minutes) |
Pharmacy --> |
90 minutes |
TOTAL TIME |
304 minutes (5 hours and 4 minutes) |
I am also concerned that Priority 2 casualty patients (the “walking wounded”) will have to wait on average for 69 minutes, up from 25 minutes last year.