Thank you, Deputy Speaker, Minister, Addington Hospital is one of the main hospitals in EThekwini Municipality providing crucial health services to hundreds of thousands of citizens in the city. Recently, emergency services in Durban have been notified that Addington Hospital will not be accepting any patients and the emergency services were asked to divert patients to surrounding hospitals, because the lifts are inoperable.
In June, patients had to go without breakfast, because the lifts in the sixteen storey building at Addington Hospital stopped working and KwaZulu- Natal, KZN, MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu voiced her unhappiness over the erratic functioning of lifts.
In the light of this unacceptable situation, what proper maintenance plan with consequence management is in place to ensure that our hospitals throughout the country don't suffer the same problem as Addington Hospital? Thank you.