South Africa: CT scanner failures at Livingstone Hospital force cancer patient to crowdfund private scan

Broken CT scanners at Livingstone Hospital in Gqeberha have disrupted diagnostic services, forcing a 70-year-old breast cancer patient to crowdfund a private scan. The incident highlights chronic infrastructure and equipment failures in South Africa's public health system, which undermine timely cancer care. The scope of the outage and its duration remain unclear, but it signals systemic capacity constraints.

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