In her legislature reply, MEC for Health Nomathemba Mokgethi said the waiting list for surgery was 2 110, including 205 patients who faced a wait of between eight and 10 years for maxillofacial surgery
“The best departments are neurosurgery and cardiothoracic, where the waiting time is only two weeks,” said Bloom.
Mokgethi also submitted that the Steve Biko Academic Hospital was dogged by a shortage of operating theatre professional nurses and that limited the number of theatres that were operating at the facility. As part of her departmental interventions to cut the long waiting list, Mokgethi said surgical disciplines from the Steve Biko Academic Hospital have had to perform some operations at the referring hospitals within the cluster.
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