President to officially open Dr Pixley Ka-Isaka Seme Memorial Hospital, KwaMashu

President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Friday, 24 November 2023, officially open the Dr Pixley Ka-Isaka Seme Memorial Hospital in KwaMashu, KwaZulu-Natal Province. 

The newly established 500-bed facility will provide round-the-clock services that will include paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, psychiatry and mental health, anaesthetics and radiology.

Patients will also have access to a burns unit, high care, an intensive care unit and trauma and emergency services.

The hospital will receive referrals from district hospitals.

The new facility, named after Dr Pixley Ka-Isaka Seme, one of the founders of the African National Congress (ANC) who hailed from Indanda.

The hospital will serve more than 1.5 million community members from areas such as Inanda, Ntuzuma, KwaMashu, Phoenix and surrounding areas, and will ease service provision burden on neighbouring healthcare facilities within eThekwini. 

Members of the media are invited as follows: 

Date: Friday, 24 November 2023
Time: 08h00
Venue: Dr Pixley Ka-Isaka Seme Memorial Hospital (Bridge City, KwaMashu, open space opposite the hospital)

Members of the media wishing to cover this event are requested to RSVP with sibongiseni.mkhize@kznhealth.gov.za on or before 11h00 on Thursday, 23 November 2023. 
 
Collection of media accreditation will be on Thursday, 23 November 2023 between 11h00 and 16h00 at Dr Pixley Ka-Isaka Seme Memorial Hospital.
 

Media enquiries: Vincent Magwenya, Spokesperson to the President – media@presidency.gov.za or Mdu Ncalane, spokesperson to the KwaZulu-Natal Province MEC - 066 139 9068.

Issued by: The Presidency
Pretoria