Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital is one of the two Gauteng hospitals, which is a total of 3,000 cancer patients waiting for radiation treatment. The court now ruled that this is contrary to the Constitution. Archive Photo: Masego Mafata
- Gauteng Health Department Johannesburg Supreme Court, 3000 cancer patients at Charlotte Maxke Hospital and 3,000 cancer patients with 3000 cancer patients in order to provide radiation treatment “All necessary steps”.
- The Union of Cancer, represented by Section27, took the department to the court.
- Judge Stephen Van Nieuwenhuizen’s operation was found to cause “irreparable damage” to the department’s waiting list. According to him, this failure was unconstitutional and illegal.
- The department said the judge could put a precedent the “undesirable”.
Gauteng complains against the Department of Health decision With the Supreme Court of Johannesburg, Charlotte Maxke Hospital and Steve Biko Hospital providing a radiation oncological treatment of about 3,000 cancer patients in the hospital.
Activists from part of part 07 in April last year, Cancer and Treatment Act Campaign (TAC) participated in cancer patients March The department requires the use of the department and the use of millions of randomons for the treatment of radiation treatment.
The issue was then taken to the court by the Cancer Union represented in 27 years compared to the attempts to deal with radiation services. They said a statement The court still wanted to force the department to provide treatment for the background of cancer patients.
Some patients have been listed for about three years, and the other has died in judging by judging, the judge Stephen Van Nieuwenhuizen’s decision. He noted that “irreparable losses” occurred and continue to occur in the absence of treatment.
Basically, Charlotte Maxke patients grew up in the hospital due to lack of radiation equipment and the lack of workers. This is specially for the radio oncological services for the oncological services for three years, despite the allocation of R784-minm. The separation was also intended to help patients clean the backwardness.
The delay in delays for these services will be returned to the end of the fiscal year, R250 million has returned to national treasures.
The judge saw the rights of these cancer patients of the Provincial Branch with a high level of vocational ethics that violated these cancer patients. “No effective and effective use of resources. Services were not secured, fair, fair, fair and impartial.”
Judge Van Nieuwenhuizen, Provincial Health Department in March 2023, said that the money was “meaningful, meaningful” because of the money to provide radiation oncological treatment for cancer patients. “On the other hand, the health and general welfare of cancer patients have deteriorated significantly. The background has a clean, inevitable and unsurorable damage to cancer patients.”
The judge stated that the department was not unconstitutional and illegal not to provide radiation services to cancer patients in the backlist.
Added that the provincial health workers commanded themselves to themselves, and ordered to take measures to ensure the organization of constitutional services to provide health services. “
He also ordered that the list of cancer patients still have the list of those waiting for radiation treatment for 45 days and the progress report and a long-term plan to the court.
The director of the Cancer Union Salomé Meyer, gave ground information, allowing the judge to obtain accurate information about the situation of each patient waiting for the treatment.
He said that “the decision”, confirms that civil society is the role of the government to prosecute what the government needs to do.
In the statement On April 2, the department confirmed that the decision was applied to apply to the government. The department “There are several basic applications that there will be no change, which will be very biased for patients in hospital oncology services” and “undesirable” may appoint a precedent.
