Tanker disaster: Tambo Memorial services returning to normal
All Outpatient Department clinics are functional again.
Tambo Memorial Hospital CEO Zenzo Ndabula has confirmed services are slowly returning to normal at the hospital following damage to various departments and the loss of nine staff due to the gas tanker explosion on December 24.
“All Outpatient Department clinics are functional, including the antenatal clinics,” he said.
“Our surgeries will be done by our team in the Bertha Gxowa Hospital, in Germiston, and patients will be returned to Tambo Memorial. All booked patients will be attended to.”
Ndabula added that there remain some challenges around patient registration as the area has been cordoned off, but things are slowly returning to normal, day by day.
Major structural damage occurred at the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit and X-ray departments. The roof was damaged, ceilings collapsed, windows were broken and equipment damaged.
Most of the minor structural damage was in the form of broken windows and collapsed ceilings.
Nine nurses and a driver from the hospital have succumbed to injuries suffered in the blast.
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