Its been confirmed that South Africa will get four new academic hospitals in provinces that historically did not have teaching hospitals.
This is according to the Minister of Health Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi. This came out during the tabling of the departments budget last week.
Dr. Motsoaledi says the construction of a new academic hospital in Limpopo has commenced.
The biggest hospitals, which we call central hospitals, where medical students are trained, are 10 in the country, and they are very big: Groote Schuur, Tygerberg, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Steve Biko, and Charlotte Maxeke. There are 10 four of them are in Gauteng. Mpumalanga has got nothing, and Limpopo has got nothing, but we have just started building one it is 26 complete. North West has got nothing. Northern Cape has got nothing.
Motsoaledi says some teaching hospitals are so dilapidated that refurbishment would not be an option.