A
rescue worker works at the scene of a roof collapse at the Charlotte Maxeke
Hospital in Johannesburg on March 2, 2017. Several people were feared trapped
in the rubble following the accident. / AFP PHOTO / Marco LONGARI
Emergency workers dug through
rubble in Johannesburg on Thursday after part of a hospital’s roof collapsed,
reportedly trapping several patients.
Others were removed from
wards, health officials said of the incident in an area near the maternity
department of the Charlotte Maxeke hospital.
Local television showed
images of men sifting through debris including mangled corrugated iron in a
devastated atrium area.
“Rescue services are still
digging in the rubble which is quite a painstakingly slow process,” ER24
spokesman Russel Meiring told AFP.
“Initial reports show there
were several patients trapped beneath the rubble. That cannot be confirmed at
this moment. ER24 services has several vehicles on the scene.”
The main opposition
Democratic Alliance party claimed that stones had been shifted onto the roof
that collapsed.
The Charlotte Maxeke is a
large public general hospital in central Johannesburg, named after a social
worker and activist who died in 1939.
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