DA sounds alarm over 3,000 cancelled surgeries at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital [SOUND]

# The DA in Gauteng says more than three-thousand surgeries have been cancelled at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital since January last year. According to the party, one in four scheduled operations were called off, leaving patients facing long delays and growing backlogs. The DA’s Jack Bloom says Orthopaedics has the biggest backlog, with more than one-thousand patients waiting up to 18 months, while nearly 500 children are also still on the waiting list: