The Mammography Unit, which was transferred from the Pietersburg Hospital, was closed as the machine had not been tested. The unit was short-staffed as it was supposed to have 22 staff members but only had14 staff, including two consultants and two registrars. The Unit had six non-functional portable X-ray machines. There was no teleradiology, which is the transmission of patient radiological images from one location to another for the purpose of interpretation. The Unit does have an equipment maintenance plan but procurement of new equipment takes more than 6 months in some cases. The Unit conducts approximately 3 000 procedures per month and sees approximately 2 000 patients per month. The manager position was vacant. The unit would be getting two new Computerised Tomography (CT) scanners to the value of R25 million that year.