The health department is investigating the state of the lifts at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital after patients and a medical doctor were trapped in them.
Spokesperson Phumelele Kaunda said on Thursday: "We are investigating what actually happened. It is not standard practice for infrastructure to be left unattended or not maintained. There is work in progress on the lift at this moment," said Kaunda.
A medical doctor, a pregnant woman, and three asthma patients were trapped in the elevator at 9.05am on Wednesday on the sixth floor of at the hospital's Block 3.
Six-weeks pregnant Caroline Gumede (26) was rushed to surgery on Wednesday night to try to save her baby. According to witnesses Gumede was the first person in the lift to suffer a panic attack. She fainted and started bleeding.
The asthma patients also had panic attacks and vomited.
Some of the people in the lift had to be taken to the casualty ward to be put on a drip after the doors were broken down.
However, Kaunda denied that the doctor and patients were trapped for an hour inside the lift.
"The duration of the incident was 45 minutes not one hour as stated. The incident is regretted," she said.
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