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MNO2603 Assignment
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In Focus:

What the Charlotte Maxeke fire tells us about health and safety in Gauteng hospitals

Just weeks before a fire tore through parts of Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in

Johannesburg on 16 April, a fire safety audit at the hospital was signed off and in March

a hospital fire and safety team met, according to the Gauteng Department of Health. Yet

Kwara Kekana, spokesperson for Gauteng Health also confirmed in responses to

questions from Spotlight that “the smoke doors are not used as the magnetic system on

the doors was no longer effective and they were recommissioned”. Smoke doors are

used to prevent the spread of smoke in a building when there is a fire. She also

confirmed that fire hydrant couplings were not compatible with the fire hoses on

Johannesburg Fire Service fire engines because “some had been stolen”. Spotlight has

requested, but not received a copy of the fire audit/ inspection report from the Gauteng

Health Department, the Department of Infrastructure and Development, and the City of

Joburg’s Fire Services. Fire compliance failures Two senior firefighters from the City of

Johannesburg who spoke to Spotlight, say the two failings (mentioned by Kekana

above) alone would sink a basic inspection or compliance audit. It was also not just the

fire doors and the hydrant couplings that were faulty at Charlotte Maxeke. They say

firefighters were not given building and floor plans of the hospital’s emergency exit plan

when they arrived on the scene the day of the fire on April 16. The emergency exit plan

is essential for those needing to enter a burning building. Smoke detection systems, fire

alarms, sprinkler systems, and the mechanisms that would have triggered the magnetic

, smoke doors were also not in working condition. There was also water flow and low

pressure to the hydrants besides non-compatible hose couplings. The two men asked to

have their identities withheld. MNO2603 ASSESSMENT 3 2024 6 The fire at Charlotte

Maxeke Hospital on 16 April marks the fourth in six years at public health facilities in

Gauteng. In February this year, a fire broke out at Carletonville Hospital, in May 2019

there was a fire at Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto, and Tambo Memorial Hospital in

Boksburg in May 2015. The fire in September 2018 devastated a provincial health

department’s head office in the Bank of Lisbon building in the Joburg inner city. That

blaze claimed the lives of three firefighters. “These are politicians, they are telling lies

and doing cover-ups – they must show you that inspection report for Charlotte Maxeke

because they are sending us into these places to die. “With fire doors, we call these

lifesavers because they can help you trap a fire – these should have been there,” says

*Nathi, who has been in the fire services for 14 years. Fire hazards in hospitals and

other public buildings throughout the city are widespread. *Richard, who has been with

the Joburg fire service for 22 years says it ranges from lifts that have not been serviced

for years; fire escapes that are obstructed and regularly used for makeshift storage and

dumping space; fire extinguishers gathering dust or used as door stops and facility

health and safety committees who are slack on fire safety compliance if they meet at all.

A fire service ‘in shambles’ Added to this, Nathi and Richard say their own department

of the City of Joburg Fire Services is in shambles. There are only four working fire

trucks for the entire city. There has also been an ongoing political blame game and

court battles. Former Joburg mayor Herman Mashaba’s multi-million rand deal to

procure specialised fire engines in 2019 was never delivered on. In April 2021, the deal

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