WHEN WILL JOBURG HOSPITAL TREAT COVID-19 PATIENTS?
29 June 2021
The limited reopening of the cancer unit at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital is a step forward, but we need to know when critical care beds at the hospital will be used to treat desperately ill Covid-19 patients.
There are more than 100 ICU beds that need to be put in operation as soon as possible, but no timetable has been given as to when this will happen.
Doctors at other Gauteng hospitals are making agonising choices about which patients get the chance to survive in a ICU bed, while others die because they cannot get specialist care.
It is still a mystery why large sections of the hospital that have been assessed as structurally safe cannot be opened immediately.