Gauteng Health ‘ignorant’ of arson at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital - Gauteng Health officials say they haven’t seen the police forensic report yet
The Gauteng Health Department says it is urgently trying to source the police forensic report blaming arson as the cause of the first of two fires at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital .
The blaze broke out in a store room on 16 April 2021, destroying medical goods worth R40-million and forcing the decanting of most of the 1 068 inpatients to other hospitals, disrupting outpatient capacity at and overloading nearby state hospitals. , including trauma capacity and oncology services, may have cost lives, although this tally has never been made public.
“This is so the necessary steps can be taken. I don’t want to speculate on media reports that it was arson and that it was related to covering up foul play. It’s very easy to jump to those conclusions in our country and, yes, we can’t rule out anything, which is why the actual report is so critical,” he added.
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