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Life Healthcare Group, formerly Afrox Healthcare, is the second largest private hospital operator in South Africa, with 6,500 beds. It is also the largest black -owned hospital operator in South Africa.
Windhoek Central Hospital is a public hospital in Windhoek, Namibia. Together with the Katutura State Hospital , it is one of two State Hospitals in the city. [ 1 ] The hospital was commissioned in 1982, and opened in 1984.
It has a dual system of public (serving 83% of the population) and private (17%) health care providers. [3] In the financial year 2020, Government and private health expenditure combined accounted for 8.9% of the country's Gross Domestic Product, [4] compared to the world average of the 10% of GDP in 2018. [5]
International University of Management (IUM), Windhoek The four Colleges of Education are since 2010 part of the University of Namibia ; They provide teacher education. [ 1 ] The Polytechnic of Namibia was de jure not a university as no provision was made in the Act by which it was created (Act 33 / 1994) [ 2 ] to carry this name.
The Roman Catholic Hospital is a private [citation needed] hospital in Windhoek, Namibia run by the Roman Catholic Church. Founded in 1907 by the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing, the Roman Catholic Hospital had 87 beds in 2007. [1] [2] [3]
Life Groenkloof Hospital (previously Little Company of Mary) is a private hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. It is situated in Groenkloof, a leafy suburb south east of the city centre. It was opened to the public in 1957. The hospital is part of the Life Healthcare group, and features a state of the art stroke unit run by Dr W. Duim ...
At its center is the Elisabeth house, Windhoek's former obstetric hospital designed by Wilhelm Sander in 1907. Elisabeth house is a national monument since 1986 and houses the Senate chambers and the office of the Vice-Chancellor. [5] The Engineering campus is adjacent to the main campus; construction of this area started in 1995. [2]
The life expectancy at birth was 56 years for females and 54 for males. Among children younger than 15, 5% had lost a mother, 10% a father, and 1% were orphaned by both parents. 4% of the entire population had a disability, of which 22% were deaf, 44% blind, 11% had a speech disability, 9% hand disability, 15% leg disability, and 4% mental ...