X-ray leak at Kopanong Hospital
21 June 2019
I am extremely concerned by the report that all x-ray staff at the Kopanong Hospital In Vereeniging have been put on two months’ special leave as a result of a possible radiation leak.
This is yet another example of poor maintenance at a Gauteng hospital that endangers staff and patients.
According to the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa), the x-Ray Department at the hospital has been broken for some time.
Other problems at this hospital include overcrowding at the casualty and a shortage of beds.