Gauteng Health condemns misleading claims by the DA regarding Charlotte Maxeke Hospital [SOUND]

# The Gauteng Health Department has condemned what it calls a reckless and misleading media statement issued by the DA. In the statement, the party alleges that patients at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital were being denied essential medicines due to shortages. The department’s spokesperson, Steve Mabona, says hospital management engaged the DA’s Madeleine Hicklin and established that her claims contained factual inaccuracies, including that the medication shortage was being experienced in ward five. He says the hospital does not have a ward five: