{"id":39761,"date":"2022-11-05T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad"},"modified":"2022-11-05T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T19:27:08","slug":"construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad","title":{"rendered":"Construction and maintenance delays plague ‘ideal hospital’ in Kroonstad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Delayed construction work, poor maintenance, water shortages, and surgical backlogs are some of the problems patients and healthcare workers face at Boitumelo Regional Hospital in Maokeng township in Kroonstad.<\/p>\n

This is despite the Free State Health MEC Montseng Tsiu parading it as one of the hospitals that received “ideal status” in the 2021\/22 financial year.<\/p>\n

In her budget speech, Tsiu said the department started implementing \u201cthe ideal hospital framework in 2019 in preparation for the NHI (National Health Insurance) accreditation\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past two financial years, the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted negatively on the performance of our health facilities and the related assessment outcomes. However, in 2021\/22, the Boitumelo, Bongani, and Dihlabeng regional hospitals, as well as Pelonomi Tertiary and Universitas Academic hospitals, achieved the ideal hospital status,\u201d said Tsiu.<\/p>\n

Achieving ideal status includes, among others, having adequate stock of medicines and equipment, as well as maintaining buildings and hospital grounds.<\/p>\n

‘Lost hope’<\/b><\/p>\n

Spotlight visited the hospital after patients and opposition party members in the province sounded the alarm over conditions at the hospital. DA councillor in the Moqhaka Municipality, Mbali Mnaba tells Spotlight she is still shocked at what she had witnessed at the hospital during an oversight visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis hospital has so much potential, but the government does not take people seriously. Members of the community have lost hope in government,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Boitumelo Regional Hospital is the biggest hospital serving public sector patients in the northern parts of the Free State in the Fezile Dabi District.<\/p>\n

\u2018Construction in progress\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Spotlight visited the hospital on 29 October 2022. From the street, it looks like a neat and well-maintained public health facility, but once inside, a different picture emerges.<\/p>\n

At the back of the hospital, the grounds are unkempt and there are half-built structures, leaking roofs that look as if they are about to collapse and non-operational theatres with signs that read, “construction in progress”.<\/p>\n

Upon entering the hospital\u2019s administration area, we found ourselves in an empty hall with clean and polished floors. As far as we could tell, there were no staff members to assist patients. Brand new leather couches stood in a corner on top of each other while patients were sitting on the pavements outside the door, waiting to be assisted.<\/p>\n

\u2018Theatres don\u2019t work\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

One nurse Spotlight spoke to says the poor hospital infrastructure affects them as healthcare professionals because patients suffer and they have to bear the brunt and answer to complaints.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are not enough beds and we feel very sorry for the patients, especially those ones who need orthopaedic surgeries. Theatres do not work. Everything is a mess. Windows are broken in existing wards. Sometimes when it rains, patients find themselves freezing.\u201d He says rain also comes in through the broken windows.<\/p>\n

\u201cAir conditioners do not work. There are no CCTV cameras for security purposes and there have been instances where we have been attacked and nothing can be done because culprits cannot be identified,\u201d he says. \u201cAnother thing is that the additional wards [once finished] would be so helpful if management of the hospital was serious about patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Incomplete patient wards seen by Spotlight show no signs of any recent construction work having been done.<\/p>\n

According to another hospital worker, the construction of the new wards has been a \u201cnon-starter\u201d since he started working there five years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been working at this hospital for the past five years and I have never seen work being done on it. They don\u2019t even try and I really don\u2019t know if it will ever be completed,\u201d he said. \u201cThis site of the hospital is just abandoned and hospital management is relaxed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waiting for surgery<\/b><\/p>\n

The hospital\u2019s theatres have not been fully operational since May 2022. According to the DA’s health spokesperson in the Free State, Mariette Pittaway, this has resulted in a backlog of orthopaedic surgeries, which is currently at 2 947 for the whole province.<\/p>\n

Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla, earlier in response to a parliamentary question, said that due to these backlogs, patients in Free State hospitals, including Boitumelo Hospital, can wait from three months to four years for surgery.<\/p>\n

Pittaway says they receive complaints about these backlogs daily.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatients have been waiting for orthopaedic surgeries such as hip replacements for months and, in some cases, for years and it impacts the lives and livelihoods of these patients severely. Many are elderly and living with extreme pain, while others lose jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years of \u2018revitalisation\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Boitumelo Hospital was identified by the Free State health department as a priority revitalisation site and the upgrading of the hospital started in 2009. Since 2011, however, construction and upgrades appear to have halted.<\/p>\n

Spotlight requested comment from the Free State Department of Health on the infrastructure issues and an update on its future plans for Boitumelo Hospital, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

Pittaway says legislators are also in the dark since there have been no updates or briefings to the health committee she serves on.<\/p>\n

The hospital has been included in the hospital revitalisation programme, a nationally-funded programme. Based on the last publicly available information from the Free State health department on this project, by 2011 the completed areas that were part of the programme include the nurses\u2019 home with 64 rooms, a doctors\u2019 quarters, an out-patient department, psychiatric, and maternity units.<\/p>\n

However, there are still no completion dates for upgrades such as the new patient wards, new kitchen units, new operation theatres, gynaecology, and ICU.<\/p>\n

Even the hospital management, until earlier this month, was seemingly in the dark.<\/p>\n

What hospital management says<\/b><\/p>\n

According to Dr Kabelo Mahasa, clinical manager at Boitumelo Hospital, the last information they received relating to the revitalisation programme was that a new contractor has been appointed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm right now that R6 million has been allocated to work on the operation theatres that are not working. We have in total six theatres and only one of them is working, so since a contractor has been appointed last week (end October), construction is expected to commence as early as possible, says Mahasa.<\/p>\n

He could not provide reasons for the years of delays and referred Spotlight to the health department.<\/p>\n

When Spotlight asked about important equipment and air conditioning systems in theatres that are not working, Mahasa says: \u201cRemember, these are not ordinary air conditioning systems, these are hospital theatre systems which are much more complicated than the ones you use in homes. It is not overnight work or something that can be fixed overnight.<\/p>\n

“But I am confident to say that a contractor is appointed and work will be completed soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mahasa says that even though there is only one working theatre, they are able to perform approximately 20 surgeries a day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that theatre, we do the emergency caesarean sections, all operations such as appendixes, including orthopaedic surgeries. So we are under extreme pressure, but even under those conditions, we still deliver,\u201d says Mahasa.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm that indeed we do set aside orthopaedic surgeries due to the nature of emergencies we often get at the hospital,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The department\u2019s plans on paper<\/b><\/p>\n

Health MEC Tsiu in her budget speech earlier said R741.2 million has been allocated for health facilities (infrastructure) management in this financial year.<\/p>\n

Tsiu said her department will ensure health facilities regain their ideal status after the impact of Covid-19 on assessment outcomes. \u201cThis, we will achieve by making critical appointments, such as operational managers, cleaners, and pharmacy assistants. Much of our effort will also go into conducting ongoing maintenance, which has suffered partly because of funds being reprioritised in response to the Covid-19 pandemic,\u201d Tsiu said.<\/p>\n

Referring to the Ideal Hospital numbers, she said since the programme started in 2019\/2020, \u201c13% of the district hospitals achieved ideal status, which increased to 50% in 2020\/21 and declined to 44% in 2021\/22 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The department will focus on continuous quality improvement to ensure we are NHI-ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boitumelo Hospital does not feature on a list of facilities due for refurbishments, renovations, and upgrades in this financial year that Tsiu provided in her speech.<\/p>\n

A matter of urgency<\/b><\/p>\n

The latest tabled annual report (2021\/22) for Free State health, highlights resolutions by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) which read: \u201cRenovations and refurbishments at the Boitumelo Regional Hospital are to be completed as a matter of urgency, as the project completion date is long overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department\u2019s response to this was that they have met with the Department of Public Works in the province as well as the consultants to resolve outstanding issues regarding the BOQs (the record of items of work for the tender) and specification so that the procurement process can begin before the end of the 2021\/22 financial year. This meeting took place in January.<\/p>\n

The department said in the report that at the time, the work at the hospital was 75% complete.<\/p>\n

In its annual report, the department notes that the huge maintenance backlog at health facilities continues and that it is now prioritising the maintenance of existing facilities. However, the department says it is limited in what it can do \u201cdue to budget constraints as the provincial equitable share allocation is insignificant\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe department, by and large, relies on the conditional grants for projects, including for the maintenance programme,\u201d the annual report reads.<\/p>\n

The health department acknowledges in the report that a lot of work still remains and progress in addressing maintenance backlogs has been slow \u2013 not only at Boitumelo Hospital but across health facilities.<\/p>\n

Apart from budget constraints, a lack of maintenance personnel in districts and the department\u2019s infrastructure unit was also identified as a problem.<\/p>\n

To beef up capacity, the plan was to establish a \u201cpanel of professional service providers\u201d (PSP) and contractors in the 2021\/22 financial year. It is not clear if this panel had been established.<\/p>\n

The plan was also to appoint additional technical personnel.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Africa<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. Delayed construction work, poor maintenance, water shortages, and surgical backlogs are some of the problems patients and healthcare workers face at Boitumelo Regional Hospital in Maokeng township in Kroonstad. This is despite the Free State Health MEC Montseng Tsiu parading it as one of the hospitals that received “ideal status” in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[274,315,479,335,1556,227,288,275],"class_list":["post-39761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-bloemfontein","tag-free-state","tag-government","tag-health","tag-politics","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"\nConstruction and maintenance delays plague 'ideal hospital' in Kroonstad - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Delayed construction work, poor maintenance, water shortages, and surgical backlogs are some of the problems patients an ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction and maintenance delays plague 'ideal hospital' in Kroonstad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Delayed construction work, poor maintenance, water shortages, and surgical backlogs are some of the problems patients an ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-05T19:05:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-05T19:27:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Construction and maintenance delays plague ‘ideal hospital’ in Kroonstad\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-05T19:05:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-05T19:27:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad\"},\"wordCount\":1663,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Africa\",\"bloemfontein\",\"free state\",\"government\",\"Health\",\"politics\",\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad\",\"name\":\"Construction and maintenance delays plague 'ideal hospital' in Kroonstad - South Africa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-05T19:05:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-05T19:27:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Delayed construction work, poor maintenance, water shortages, and surgical backlogs are some of the problems patients an ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":768,\"caption\":\"Construction and maintenance delays plague 'ideal hospital' in Kroonstad\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Construction and maintenance delays plague ‘ideal hospital’ in Kroonstad\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Construction and maintenance delays plague 'ideal hospital' in Kroonstad - South Africa","description":"Delayed construction work, poor maintenance, water shortages, and surgical backlogs are some of the problems patients an ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Construction and maintenance delays plague 'ideal hospital' in Kroonstad","og_description":"Delayed construction work, poor maintenance, water shortages, and surgical backlogs are some of the problems patients an ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad","og_site_name":"South Africa","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-11-05T19:05:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-11-05T19:27:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":768,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Construction and maintenance delays plague ‘ideal hospital’ in Kroonstad","datePublished":"2022-11-05T19:05:36+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-05T19:27:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad"},"wordCount":1663,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-South-Africa","bloemfontein","free state","government","Health","politics","South-Africa"],"articleSection":["all news","files"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad","name":"Construction and maintenance delays plague 'ideal hospital' in Kroonstad - South Africa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg","datePublished":"2022-11-05T19:05:36+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-05T19:27:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Delayed construction work, poor maintenance, water shortages, and surgical backlogs are some of the problems patients an ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_11-6366b8ee4ea88.jpg","width":1024,"height":768,"caption":"Construction and maintenance delays plague 'ideal hospital' in Kroonstad"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/construction-and-maintenance-delays-plague-ideal-hospital-in-kroonstad#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Construction and maintenance delays plague ‘ideal hospital’ in Kroonstad"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/","name":"South Africa","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}