{"id":54309,"date":"2015-08-31T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T08:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2015\/08\/charlotte-maxeke-unable-to-do-gall-bladder-ops-for-19-months\/"},"modified":"2015-08-31T10:34:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T08:34:54","slug":"charlotte-maxeke-unable-to-do-gall-bladder-ops-for-19-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/charlotte-maxeke-unable-to-do-gall-bladder-ops-for-19-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Maxeke unable to do gall bladder ops for 19 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital has not been able to do a single gall bladder operation since March last year because of broken laparoscopy equipment\u201a the Democratic Party said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>DA provincial spokesman on health matters Jack Bloom said this information had been revealed by Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu in a written reply to his questions in the Gauteng Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty-one patients are currently waiting for gall bladder operations at the hospital. Normally\u201a about six gall bladder operations are done every month\u201a so the backlog is now more than eight months because of the broken equipment\u201a\u201d Bloom said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MEC\u201a new laparoscopic equipment would be delivered in six to eight weeks\u201a Bloom added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile\u201a patients were being referred to the Helen Joseph Hospital for gall bladder surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is shameful that this major hospital has been for so long without a key piece of surgery equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is yet another example of equipment failure at this hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Other broken machinery at the hospital this year includes the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mammography machine to detect breast cancer<\/li>\n<li>Broken lifts<\/li>\n<li>Air-conditioning failure in operating theatres<\/li>\n<li>Shortage of clean linen because broken sterilising machine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe department should give a high priority to ensuring working equipment at this flagship hospital\u201a\u201d said Bloom.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RDM News Wire.<br \/>  <!-- aal pro check --><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/charlotte-maxeke-unable-to-do-gall-bladder-ops-for-19-months\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital has not been able to do a single gall bladder operation since March last year because of broken laparoscopy equipment\u201a the Democratic Party said on Sunday. DA provincial spokesman on health matters Jack Bloom said this information had been revealed by Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu in a written reply [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[8414,8411,8413,8412,6806,4774],"class_list":{"0":"post-54309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-bladder","8":"tag-charlotte","9":"tag-gall","10":"tag-maxeke","11":"tag-months","12":"tag-unable","13":"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\/54309","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=54309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}