Gauteng Health rejects blindness claims at Steve Biko Hospital [SOUND]

# The Gauteng Department of Health rejects claims that a patient was left permanently blind because of broken equipment at Steve Biko Academic Hospital. The department’s Steve Mabona says the patient’s vision loss was linked to multiple previous surgical procedures, and specialists advised the prognosis for one eye was already poor. While acknowledging procurement delays, he says the department’s clinical records do not support claims that equipment shortages caused the blindness: