News24 reports that the mood outside of the Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital was calm on Wednesday following a second blaze at the facility in just a few days.

There was no major commotion or panic among staff or patients as emergency personnel moved to control the fire before it could spread and cause significant damage. The affected area, confirmed to be the hospital’s Outpatient Department (OPD), remained closed off, and access to the hospital was tightly controlled. Gauteng Department of Health’s head of communication Motalatale Modiba advised that the affected area was adjacent to the accident and emergency unit which burned on Saturday evening. “But [the newly burnt area] was not an area that was being used. The area had been cordoned off from when we had the first incident, and the electricity supply to the area had been cut off from the first incident. So, the investigations obviously are ongoing in the particular case,” Modiba indicated. He stressed that no one was being denied medical care and that operations, although disrupted, continued in a limited capacity.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Floyd Mathebula at The Citizen
• Lees ook, Tweede brand by Tembisa-hospitaal in minder as ʼn week, by Maroela Media
• And also, 'Service continues' despite second fire at Thembisa Hospital, says deputy minister, at TimesLIVE

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