Bara to get a new paediatric surgery outpatient clinic
The Gauteng Health MEC, Ms Qedani Mahlangu will on Thursday, 23 June 2016 preside over the launch of a world-class paediatric surgery outpatient clinic, which will include a sleep-over facility at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital.
The facility will be built in partnership with international healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Surgeons for Little Lives, a local non-profit organisation focused on saving the lives of sick children.
The two storey clinic is designed to support 2 000 outpatients and 300 inpatients per month and will cater for infants and children up to the age of 10 years presenting with paediatric surgical conditions.
This will include a clinic on the lower level and a maternal sleep-over facility on the upper level, allowing mothers to “live-in” at the hospital for the duration of their child’s hospitalisation, which they currently are not able to do, due to lack of “sleep-in” facility.
This project is part of GSK’s South Africa Community Partnership Programme and supports the company’s overall objective to strengthen the healthcare system in South Africa while playing a bigger role in the local community.
Members of the media are invited to the event as follows:
Date: 23 June 2016
Time: 10h00 for 10h30
Venue: Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital
For more information and interviews, please contact:
Steve Mabona
Cell: 072 574 3860
