Madwaleni Hospital

The Eastern Cape Department of Health's Madwaleni hospital and its eight feeder clinics are located on the beautiful Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape, South Africa in an area that remains deeply rural.

The hospital was founded by the Dutch Reformed Church in 1960. Later the Department of Health took over the running of the hospital. And in recent years a new casualty and outpatient department (OPD) was built as well as introducing a rehabilitation team.

The hospital has 180 beds in seven wards, an outpatients department and a rehabilitation department. Two wards are for medical and surgical adult patients, two are dedicated for adults with TB with an MDR TB programme. The rehab department have a ‘low-care’ ward for patients who need regular therapy but are medically stable. There is a paediatric ward and a maternity unit. The busy OPD caters for a huge variety of self-presentations and nurse referrals 24 hours a day. The maternity unit delivers around 1,200 babies per year and there are facilities for Caesarean section 24 hours a day. We also have an x-ray department and basic lab facilities on sight.