FISHY CONTRACT FOR FAILED GENERATORS AT JOBURG HOSPITAL
A mystery company is responsible for servicing the generators at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) that have failed twice in the past four months.
A generator failed in December last year, and last week on Thursday (14 March) two of the generators did not kick for four hours, which led to panic in the intensive care unit as doctors were called in to save patients.
According to a written reply to my questions by Infrastructure Development MEC Qedani Mahlangu, "the current contractor Opsense Management Consultants were appointed in 2011, from the approved database of suppliers".
A service by Opsense of the five main generators cost R186 000 each, which totals R930 000. They were serviced earlier this year, so it is inexplicable that they failed unless there was major incompetence.
According to records of the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC), Opsense is a closed corporation with an address in Phokeng in the North West Province. Mr Tshepo David Thobejane is the sole member and it is currently in a deregistration process.