Hundreds of cancer patients have missed out on treatment for at least two weeks after an April fire shuttered oncology services at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital.
More than 800 patients had to be transferred to other health facilities in Gauteng after a fire gutted two blocks of the 1 000-bed hospital on 16 April 2021.
The Gauteng health department had initially promised that the hospital would reopen on 3 May after a detailed structural assessment is completed.

Name: [• Jack Bloom]
Position at organisation: [• DA Shadow Minister of Health in Gauteng