Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Gauteng government has spent a staggering R1.238bn of much-needed Covid-19 funds on the construction of four new “field intensive care” hospitals. The money was spent in 2020. But of the four, two are still not open.
At great cost to life and health, the failure to reopen the Charlotte Maxeke hospital is the latest sad chapter and lesson in what happens when prima facie evidence of corruption is ignored by the Gauteng government and premier and when dishonest officials are allowed to continue their work in.
The Gauteng government has suspended nine senior officials in the departments of health and infrastructure after the refurbishment of the AngloGold Ashanti Hospital ballooned from a budgeted R50m to R588m. Only a handful of severely ill coronavirus patients have been treated at the facility. Th.