R1bn Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital to admit first patient in 2016

A year after first breaking ground on the 238-bed, eight-theatre Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital (NMCH), in Parktown, Johannesburg, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Trust (NMCHT) continues to advance the legacy project with a view to admitting its first young patient in the first half of next year. Located on land gifted by the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Education Campus and lying adjacent to the Wits Medical School and the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, the paediatric facility would, once completed, become the fifth facility of its kind on the continent and only the second in South Africa, alongside the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, in Cape Town.