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Daily News reports that according to the chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Health Portfolio Committee, Nomakiki Majola, there was still a long way to go to end the Addington Hospital lift crisis.
This followed nursing staff embarking on a go-slow on Tuesday morning. Last Wednesday, hospital staff staged a protest after four of the hospital’s lifts had to be shut down for repairs after water from an overflowing basin flooded the shafts. This resulted in staff having to use the stairs at the 16-storey building to assist patients. Currently only two of the hospitals’ eight lifts are operational. Majola commented as follows: “It is a very painful situation for staff to serve under the current conditions, especially at a health centre that helps a large community. We can’t blame workers for being fed up when they can’t properly help patients.” Last Friday, Majola and other officials conducted an emergency oversight visit at Addington and engaged with officials from the hospital and the provincial health department to resolve the lifts debacle. She reported on the situation as follows: “We were told the lifts would operate at full capacity once the hospital received the parts it needed to repair the lifts. They were expected to arrive on Monday, yet they have not arrived.” According to the head of the department, efforts were being made to procure the necessary parts, which were of a specialised nature.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Winston Mfeka at Daily News
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