More delays for Joburg hospital psychiatric ward
3 November 2019
The psychiatric ward at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital is in dire need of renovation, but completion of the work has been delayed yet again because the contractor has not been paid.
Renovation of the ward was supposed to be completed in 2014, but this is now the fourth company that has failed to do the job.
Angry workers have flooded the ward with water, forcing the evacuation of medical staff, and mental health patients are now in unsatisfactory temporary wards.
Two years ago, then Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa disclosed that the cost of the ward had tripled to R34 million and she promised that it would be finished in March 2018.