The growth strategy of day hospital group Advanced Health has pushed up annual losses almost threefold, but it is confident it will reap rewards in the medium to long term. The company, which listed on the JSE in 2014, has 10 operational day hospitals in SA and four in Australia. It recently raised R85m in a rights offer, which it said it would use to repay debt and fund new facilities planned for 2018. On Wednesday the group’s annual financial statements for the year ended June 2017 showed the loss at its South African operation widened to R22.5m, from R20.5m a year ago. The Australian operation made a R21m profit — almost four times the R5.7m profit of a year earlier.

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