The Financial Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Gauteng has expressed concern over the recurring fireplace outbreaks on the Tembisa Tertiary Hospital. The hospital skilled the second blaze on the morning of Wednesday April 23, 2025 after the primary incident occurred on Saturday, April 19 2025.
The preliminary fireplace broken the not too long ago renovated Accident and Emergency Unit, destroying pc programs, affected person recordsdata, and compelled the hospital right into a diversion mode, not admitting new sufferers. The hospital providers over 1 million sufferers from the Tembisa space, the East Rand and the province at giant.
That is the second public hospital within the province to catch a devastating fireplace in latest instances after the one on the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in April 2021.
Authorities nonetheless has to mobilise funds to revive the hospital and the ailing healthcare sector as a complete.The extent of the harm continues to be below investigation.
Deputy Minister of Well being, Dr Joe Phaahla and the Gauteng MEC for Well being and Wellness, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko and different well being officers are anticipated to go to the hospital to ascertain the extent of the harm and make a willpower on how the nationwide workplace may assist the province to reduce the influence on entry to important healthcare.
The EFF’s Dumisane Baleni mentioned: “Medical personnel had been unable to effectively attend to sufferers because of the chaos, compounded by compromised medical data. Over 83 sufferers beforehand handled in these items had been relocated to a makeshift casualty space, whereas many stay disoriented, with little understanding of the evolving scenario.”
The celebration has referred to as for the provincial authorities to launch a right away impartial and clear investigation into the fires on the hospital to examine security compliance, together with fireplace hydrants, extinguishers and alarm programs and to additionally set up whether or not these incidents had been resulting from foul play or neglect by the management.
Baleni mentioned: “These accountable should be uncovered and dropped at justice. We additional assist the decision for the involvement of State Intelligence to get to the foundation of this matter and stop future sabotage of our healthcare amenities.”
