Tourism , Lynne Brown, and Health Minister, Pierre Uys, on a Public Private
Partnership (PPP) at the Lentegeur Hospital and Western Cape Rehabilitation
Centre (WCRC)
11 December 2006
The Western Cape Department of Health has entered into its very first PPP
involving two public health facilities on the Lentegeur Hospital Site in
Mitchell's Plain and private companies. The PPP is a 12 year contractual
arrangement with a total net present value of R344 million (indexed annually
over the 12 year period), for the provision of:
* facilities management services like catering and cleaning grounds and
gardens at the Lentegeur Hospital and the WCRC
* maintenance of the WCRC buildings
* maintenance, refreshment and replacement of medical and therapeutic equipment
over the 12 year period at the WCRC.
The department's partner in this venture is Mpilisweni Facility Services
Consortium (Pty) Ltd, made up of Drake and Scull, Vuya Investments and Folang
Joint Venture, all of which are black owned companies. "The consortium brings a
wealth of experience and knowledge of facilities management and is committed to
uplift the community by employing 70% of its work staff from the Cape Flats"
Minister Uys said today at the signing ceremony of the contract.
The Lentegeur Hospital is a psychiatric facility with 940 beds that renders
forensic, acute and child and adolescent psychiatric services. The Lentegeur
Hospital is a community hospital that provides treatment and care,
opportunities for rehabilitation and a significant focus of reintegrating
patients back into the community.
The Western Cape Rehabilitation Centre with 208 beds provides a
comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to rehabilitation services for
physically disabled patients on an in and outpatient basis. The main focus of
this centre is to reintegrate patients back into the community and to enable
patients to be independent which includes personal care, work assessment, daily
living activities and socialisation.
Minister Brown says that the occasion today is but another demonstration of
the commitment of the Western Cape government to the process of ensuring that
there is closer collaboration and partnership between the private and public
sector in our combined commitment to making this Province an important nerve
centre in our country. PPP must also be directly beneficial to the people in
whose neighbourhoods they operate. Every PPP must therefore be deigned and
pro-actively seek, to produce a positive socio-economic impact in any way that
is appropriate to the project and its location.
Minister Uys said that in line with the department's stated strategy, there
was no loss of jobs and after consultation and taking into consideration their
preferences; some staff were redeployed to other departmental health
facilities. "The conclusion of this agreement sets about the establishment of a
centre of excellence for the provision of facilities management and the ongoing
maintenance of these facilities" Uys said.
Issued by: Department of Health, Western Cape Provincial Government
11 December 2006
Source: Western Cape Provincial Government (http://www.capegateway.gov.za)
