Broken theatres delay cardiac ops at Steve Biko hospital
10 November 2020
Cardiac patients at the Steve Biko Hospital are waiting for weeks for surgery due to only 4 out of 11 theatres being functional.
It is unclear why so many theatres are unable to be used but the waiting time is three weeks for a simple angiogram procedure.
Both doctors and patients are frustrated by the delays in doing essential heart surgery. Some of the patients have spent weeks at the cardiac ward waiting for their operations.
This follows a problem of broken lifts at the hospital in September which was greatly inconvenient for sick people.