WINDSTORMS AFFECT SERVICE DELIVERY AT MOKOPANE HOSPITAL
LUTENDO LIVHEBE – MUDAU. The department wishes to inform members of the public that Mokopane Regional Hospital has been partially temporarily closed. This is after heavy thunderstorms damaged the hospital’s electricity supply infrastructure that includes a medium voltage pole and cables. The hospital has since been forced to run for over 36 hours by means of a stand by generator that ultimately gave in. Technicians tried to fix the generator but it only managed to run for few hours before suffering more break downs.
Due to the fact that the country is now on stage 4 load shedding, the department is unable to reassign generators from other facilities to assist in the meantime since they also need the generators for load shedding.
As a result, ICU patients at Mokopane Regional Hospital have been evacuated to Petersburg and Mankweng Hospitals while other patients have been taken to Voortrekker Hospital.
The department advices community members who wanted to visit the hospital’s casualty or OPD to go to Voortrekker or George Masebe hospitals.
ESKOM technicians and the department’s infrastructure unit are on the ground working around the clock to ensure that this challenge is resolved.
