North West Health authorities have not yet determined the cause and extent of damage caused by a fire that gutted the Christiana Provincial Hospital. The 50-bed facility was completely gutted in a fire that broke out on Wednesday morning.
Patients have been transferred to a neighbouring hospital.
Health MEC, Madoda Sambatha, says the hospital is badly damaged.
“Christiana hospital in terms of the damage, it is completely damaged. What is painful is that an investment of R95 million has completely gone down in one day through fire.
We are told by those who were there, that the fire started on the side where there is construction. But, the responsibility that has to determine what had happened, who is at fault, rest with the police forensic.”
After fires that affected both Mmabatho Palms Hotel and Christiana Hospital this morning, how effective & efficient are Fire and Emergency Services units/ departments in North West Province especially in as far as response time is concerned? ??? pic.twitter.com/xjOsjWrXJ7
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Mmabatho Palms Hotel
Meanwhile, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Zoleka Capa this past week bemoaned a lack of emergency evacuation processes at the Mmabatho Palms Hotel in Mahikeng in the North West.
The hotel also caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Capa, who was a guest at the hotel, had to flee from her room wearing her nightgown.
The extend of the damage to the hotel has not yet been established.
Mmabatho Palms gutted by fire
