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Addington sale 'will finance' three hospitals
by Patrick Leeman
2001-08-02

The KwaZulu-Natal department of health intends to build three large hospitals in the Durban unicity area with the proceeds of the sale of land occupied by Addington Hospital. This was said by Professor Ronald Green-Thompson, secretary for health in KwaZulu-Natal. He was commenting on a report that his department was considering the sale of a section of the property occupied by Addington Hospital to rationalise its future hospital programme. Green-Thompson said the new hospitals would be district hospitals based at Adams Mission, Hammarsdale/Peacevale and at KwaMashu/Duff's Road. He said it was the department's intention to retain Addington Hospital, but as a 400-bed institution instead of the 720-bed hospital it was at present. Emergency services and a 24-hour service to the public would be retained. Green-Thompson said the obstetrics and gynaecology functions at Addington had already been taken over by the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Phoenix. The secretary for health said the new Albert Luthuli Memorial Hospital at Cato Manor, which would become operational in November, would be a regional hospital and a referral institution that provided specialist care for patients from other Durban hospitals such as Addington. Green-Thompson said there was no particular timeframe for the sale of the land, at present occupied by Addington, the nurses' home and the former Addington Children's Hospital. (Source: The Mercury, 27 July 2001)

The KwaZulu-Natal department of health intends to build three large hospitals in the Durban unicity area with the proceeds of the sale of land occupied by Addington Hospital. This was said by Professor Ronald Green-Thompson, secretary for health in KwaZulu-Natal. He was commenting on a report that his department was considering the sale of a section of the property occupied by Addington Hospital to rationalise its future hospital programme.

Such a development would open up huge possibilities for an expanded tourism market, since the released land would extend the Golden Mile concept from the Village Green to the Point Waterfront.

Green-Thompson said the new hospitals would be district hospitals based at Adams Mission, Hammarsdale/Peacevale and at KwaMashu/Duff's Road. He said it was the department's intention to retain Addington Hospital, but as a 400-bed institution instead of the 720-bed hospital it was at present. Emergency services and a 24-hour service to the public would be retained.

Green-Thompson said the obstetrics and gynaecology functions at Addington had already been taken over by the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Phoenix.

The secretary for health said the new Albert Luthuli Memorial Hospital at Cato Manor, which would become operational in November, would be a regional hospital and a referral institution that provided specialist care for patients from other Durban hospitals such as Addington.

Green-Thompson said there was no particular timeframe for the sale of the land, at present occupied by Addington, the nurses' home and the former Addington Children's Hospital. The prime beachfront property is said to be worth millions of rands and is particularly important from a tourism point of view because it abuts a huge tract of land that has been set aside for the Point redevelopment project. When completed, the Point Waterfront will be 22 times bigger than the Victoria and Albert Waterfront development in Cape Town.

Source: The Mercury, 27 July 2001

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