KZN Health reaches deal to keep cancer machines running
Provincial health officials have struck a deal with a world leader in radiation oncology systems to keep cancer treatment machines at Durban's Addington Hospital, operational.
Health MEC, Sibongiseni Dhlomo met with the president of multinational firm - Varian Medical Systems - yesterday.
The department says it was agreed that the company - which manufactured the machines - would now be responsible for keeping them on.
The machines had previously been serviced and maintained through Varian’s national agent.
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But the department says the company's now established offices in South Africa. Dhlomo said in a statement late yesterday afternoon, that technicians were already working at Addington.
They've been able to fix one of the oncology machines - the second one's expected to be up and running soon.
The MEC meanwhile says they're in the process of hiring four new staff - one of them will head up the oncology clinical unit.
The department's been taking steps to address the provincial health crisis after a Human Rights Commission report found that it'd violated the rights of oncology patients.