Mining hospital donated for Covid patients to become permanent facility

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The Gauteng government has assured the community of West Rand that the Anglo Gold Ashanti Hospital will permanently contribute to the provision of quality health care in the area.

“The facility will address the dire shortage of critical care beds in the West Rand district and relieve pressure from both Leratong and Carletonville hospitals. It will form part of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital cluster focusing on general medicine and will also cater for mental health patients,” he said.

“AngloGold Ashanti Hospital forms part of an important intervention to ensure that the community of West Rand is left better off post the pandemic, as they will have access to better infrastructure going forward,” he said. The newspaper reported that the expenditure is only the start of the project to convert a former mine hospital into a 174-bed intensive care facility.AngloGold Ashanti made available a fully equipped 270-bed West Vaal facility near Orkney in the North West and a hospital at West Wits near Carletonville, west of Johannesburg.

 

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