The Gauteng infrastructure development department is refocusing its attention on the maintenance of its existing infrastructure, starting with the province’s 33 public hospitals.Infrastructure development MEC Jacob Mamabolo said active maintenance was needed if the department were to increase the life of buildings owned by the province. "We have never struck a proper balance between doing maintenance and delivering infrastructure … and everyday without maintaining infrastructure it decays and become more costly and expensive [to repair]," he said. Mamabolo’s department has done baseline assessments of the conditions of facilities owned by the provincial government. Hospitals were the first to undergo an extensive review under the proposed new approach.Of the 33 hospitals in the province all but two were ranked at level two in the baseline assessment, meaning that the hospitals were below the acceptable standard. The assessment levels are as follows:Level 1: Very bad — the building n...
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