FUNDING:
Children’s hospital a mammoth boost, not a white elephant
The R500m was an estimate based on the cost of running a 200-bed children’s hospital at full throttle
We are shocked at the article about the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital (Mandela hospital faces funding crisis, September 11), which misrepresents a project that was dearly loved by Madiba. There cannot be any debate about the need for this type of facility. The business case has been proven, international hospitals have partnered with us and the health ministry is on record emphasising how the hospital will augment healthcare as the second paediatric hospital in SA. The hospital also has partnerships with the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) Medical School, the University of Pretoria Medical School and the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University. Wits Medical School dean of health sciences Prof Martin Veller says the Gauteng universities look forward to using this facility to train paediatric and paediatric-associated specialists and subspecialists, and to do research in paediatric-related fields. The claim that "there are fears among some doctors that [the hospital] will b...
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