No progress in fixing Charlotte Maxeke Hospital parking crises
24 January 2023
Staff and patients continue to struggle with parking at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital despite promises that extra bays would be made available by November last year.
This is what I found when I visited the hospital yesterday (Monday 23 January) after receiving complaints about the parking.
Doctors and nurses have to come in super early to get the few open bays in the hospital basement, so most of them park far away at great inconvenience.
It’s even worse for patients who are sickly and have to walk long distances to get into the hospital. I gave a lift to 70-year-old Salim Abraham (not his real name) who had to park more than a kilometre away and uses a walking stick. He drove from Eldorado Park to drop his wife off at the diabetes clinic.