Top health care at new private hospital
Cardio-thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, urology, ear, nose and throat surgery, orthopaedic surgery, and paediatric services and -surgery - specialised services that the Netcare Polokwane Hospital will offer.
POLOKWANE – Cardio-thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, urology, ear, nose and throat surgery, orthopaedic surgery, and paediatric services and -surgery.
These are just some of the specialised services that the Netcare Polokwane Hospital will offer when it is complete.
The facility, which is being developed using the very latest in hospital design techniques to optimise both operational and environmental efficiencies, will have an emergency department, adult medical and surgical wards, an obstetrics ward, a paediatric ward, a day ward, a combined intensive care and high care unit, a neonatal intensive care unit, general surgery theatres, a caesarean theatre, catheterisation laboratory, radiology and pathology departments, a fertility clinic and a retail pharmacy.
According to Netcare hospital division managing director, Jacques du Plessis, the construction of the hospital, which started in February 2014, is scheduled to be completed by September, and is being developed in partnership with empowerment consortium Pholoso Holdings.
“Patients will no longer have to travel beyond the borders of the province to obtain specialised medical services,” he said. He further said the state-of-the-art private hospital would greatly improve the community’s access to quality private healthcare services and assist in stimulating the local economy.
He said Netcare had carefully researched the need for such a facility in the area, and ensured that the project had the support of both the local community and medical fraternity before deciding to go ahead with the development.
Although Netcare operates the largest network of private hospitals in South Africa, Netcare Polokwane Hospital will be the group’s and Pholoso’s first facility in Limpopo.
The hospital will initially have 109 beds available, but the facility is being developed in a modular way that will enable easy and rapid expansion in order to meet the growing needs of the community.
Speaking on behalf of Pholoso Holdings, Godfrey Phakoago said aside from the obvious advantages, the hospital would also assist energising the local economy by creating employment and business opportunities. “Local skills are being used as far as possible to develop the hospital, and individuals from the community will staff the facility,” he said.
