Settlers hospital recently completed another phase of its refurbishment. The completion sees the availability of the public outpatient facility, pharmacy and ARV clinic as well as the shared private and public radiology and surgical theatre complex.
Settlers hospital recently completed another phase of its refurbishment. The completion sees the availability of the public outpatient facility, pharmacy and ARV clinic as well as the shared private and public radiology and surgical theatre complex.
The fresh looking and polished maternity wing promises an improved maternal healthcare with well equipped ante- and post-natal wards. One of the new developments at the hospital is the passage that connects the hospital with the new wing. The passage runs through a new attractive waiting area and into the accident and emergency unit.
This new set up is "efficient and effective", said the hospital’s nursing manager, Irene Solomon.
The hospital now has a Netcare pharmacy, six examination rooms, six consulting rooms and a separate room to attend to rape survivors. There is also an out-patient section which was named Masonwabe (Let’s be happy) by the hospital staff. The section has its own pharmacy and provides a joint care unit and a wellness centre for patients on anti-retrovirals.
According to Solomon, the new wing’s entrance will now become the hospital’s main entrance for both public and private patients and will also accommodate accident emergency cases.
“The theatre complex unit has been operational since late February and to date, 52 operations have been performed,” Solomon said. She added that the staff compliment for the theatre and casualty unit will be 60% of the existing staff employed by the government, and 40% will be employed by the private partner and the units will be managed by the public/private partnership. Solomon believes that the refurbishment of the hospital will improve service delivery and patient flow. As a result, "doctors will feel better and patients safer," she said.
