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King Edward hospital to be rebuilt
SAPA
2000-03-10

King Edward hospital in Durban is to be completely rebuilt at a cost of approximately R480 million.

The KwaZulu-Natal government intends to rebuild Durban's King Edward hospital from scratch, the province's superintendent-general of health, Professor Ronnie Green-Thompson, said on 8/3/00.

He said the hospital, Durban's largest, was falling to pieces and that it would be more cost-effective to rebuild it as a new hospital than to rehabilitate it. It would cost R486-million to upgrade the hospital, and R480-million plus to rebuild it as a state-of-the-art institution. The province would do this if it could find the money, and was exploring private funding initiatives.

Patients would be shifted to other hospitals to make space for the building work, he said.
(Source: SAPA, 8/3/00)

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