Future of Kempton Hospital: public meeting on March 18
The meeting will be held next Wednesday at Hoërskool Jeugland
A public meeting will be held to discuss the response by the Gauteng Health MEC to questions regarding the state of Kempton Park Hospital.
The DA will give residents feedback on the questions tabled to Qedani Mahlangu regarding the status of the hospital.
Kempton Park Hospital, renamed Khyalami Hospital shortly before its closure, closed its doors 18 years ago on December 26, 1996. Most of the expensive equipment in the building was left behind. Today not much of it is left.
Previously announced promises to re-open the old hospital have never materialised. The health department had in August 2013 announced plans for the hospital to be rebuilt within two years.
Patricia Mokgohlwa, the then DA constituency head Tembisa and Kempton Park, said in 2013 the reopening had been delayed by two years and was scheduled to take place in 2017. She said it would become a level 1 district hospital.
Ward councillor Jaco Terblanche and MPL and DA Constituency Head of Tembisa, Refiloe Nt’sekhe, will chair the meeting on March 18 at Hoërskool Jeugland.
The school is situated on Christoffel Street in Van Riecbeeck Park. The meeting starts at 6.30pm.
For more information, call Terblanche on 083-413-2420.
