Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize, is expected to visit the FH Odendaal hospital in Modimolle, Limpopo, on Thursday. Two patients were killed in a fire incident at the hospital. The patients, aged 70 and 78, died when two COVID-19 wards caught fire on Tuesday morning.
The fire incident at FH Ondendaal hospital has left the bereaved families devastated. One of the deceased patients, 70-year old Lucas Matsene from Marapyane village in Mpumalanga, had been admitted a day before the incident.
The other patient, 78-year old William Mehlapefrom Moletjie, outside Polokwane, was an inmate from a correctional facility. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
The video below reports on the fire:
In April, the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johaanesburg, Gauteng, was temporarily closed following a fire.
The blaze broke out in a storage room. It then spread to other parts of the hospital.
In the video below, SABC reporter Mbalenhle Mthethwa is interviewed on the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital fire:
