No facilities for psychiatric patients at Joburg hospital as repair costs soar
Three years after renovations of the psychiatric ward at Charlotte Maxeke hospital were meant to be complete, the ward remains unfit for patients, the DA says
Renovations to the psychiatric ward at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital have stalled again, while the cost has more than tripled to R34m. Gauteng health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa confirmed a new delay in her response to questions in the provincial legislature by DA MPL Jack Bloom. A new tender for the renovations is due to go out in this month‚ meaning that the work — originally supposed to be completed in 2014 — will be now be completed in early 2018. "This would be the third company to work on this ward‚" Bloom said in a statement on Wednesday. In her reply, Ramokgopa said that a contractor had exceeded the variation order by 20%, resulting in its termination. "The initial contractor‚ Chriselda Building Construction‚ was terminated after it only did phase 1 of the project, which was the doctors’ rooms‚" Bloom said. "The project was re-advertised in August 2015 and a replacement contractor was supposed to complete the job in September [2016] at a cost of about R10m. I h...
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