{"id":171563,"date":"2020-11-10T10:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/broken-theatres-delay-cardiac-ops-at-steve-biko-hospital\/"},"modified":"2020-11-10T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T08:37:12","slug":"broken-theatres-delay-cardiac-ops-at-steve-biko-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/broken-theatres-delay-cardiac-ops-at-steve-biko-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken theatres delay cardiac ops at Steve Biko Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/broken-theatres-delay-cardiac-ops-at-steve-biko-hospital\/\">Broken theatres delay cardiac ops at Steve Biko Hospital<\/a>: <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"simple-love-fix\" data-id=\"2295\" value=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p>Cardiac patients at the Steve Biko Hospital are waiting for weeks for surgery due to only 4 out of 11 theatres being functional.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear why so many theatres are unable to be used but the waiting time is three weeks for a simple angiogram procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Both doctors and patients are frustrated by the delays in doing essential heart surgery. Some of the patients have spent weeks at the cardiac ward waiting for their operations.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a problem of broken lifts at the hospital in September which was greatly inconvenient for sick people.<\/p>\n<p>Broken machinery is unfortunately a common problem in state hospitals in Gauteng because of poor maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Last month more than 100 operations were cancelled at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital because of broken air-conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has led to massive surgery backlogs that need to be cut as soon as possible, but this can only be done if all machinery is well-maintained and functional.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Bloom MPL<\/strong><br \/> <em>DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/broken-theatres-delay-cardiac-ops-at-steve-biko-hospital\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken theatres delay cardiac ops at Steve Biko Hospital: Dear Johannesburg Cardiac patients at the Steve Biko Hospital are waiting for weeks for surgery due to only 4 out of 11 theatres being functional. It is unclear why so many theatres are unable to be used but the waiting time is three weeks for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[10738,3774,39438,8787,616,3039,13509],"class_list":{"0":"post-171563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-biko","8":"tag-broken","9":"tag-cardiac","10":"tag-delay","11":"tag-hospital","12":"tag-steve","13":"tag-theatres","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}