A fire was contained in the female psychiatry ward at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital on Monday, Gauteng Health said, when a mental health patient set fire to her bed while demanding to be discharged.
TimesLIVE reports that security personnel responded and the fire was extinguished, while the fire department also arrived and helped to clear smoke from the affected area.
“As a precautionary measure, patients were moved from the ward to allow for a thorough investigation,” the department said. No one was injured.
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