A shortage of vital equipment like ventilators and basic examination lights is jeopardising the lives of patients at Tembisa Hospital, according to the DA, which is demanding urgent intervention at a facility also plagued by major staff shortages and vacant leadership posts, reports EWN.
Additionally, said the party, only 40 of 213 vacant posts are currently being filled.
DA spokesperson Jack Bloom also slammed delays in repairing areas damaged by a fire in April last year, saying that emergency and psychiatric patients were still being diverted to other, already overburdened, hospitals.
“Tembisa has been terribly neglected since the looting of the more than R2bn where fake companies were paid for goods and services that weren’t delivered,” he added, referring to the Special Investigating Unit's probe that revealed the theft of billions by three major syndicates.
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