Mediclinic to provide 10 prostate cancer patients with free surgery
Private hospital group Mediclinic is offering a limited number of free procedures to state patients, as it seeks to build closer ties with the government. The state has historically been wary of entering into public-private partnerships, but private hospital players hope the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme will open up new opportunities.In the latest of a series of collaborative ventures with provincial health departments, Mediclinic announced on Tuesday that it would provide 10 prostate cancer patients from Tygerberg Hospital with cutting-edge precision surgery using the Da Vinci robot. The technology is not currently available in the state sector, so they will be the first state patients to benefit from it. Mediclinic has already provided dozens of cataract, urology and ear drum repair procedures at no cost to the state in the Western Cape, Free State and Limpopo. The latest collaboration with the Western Cape health department will also provide a trai...
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