Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is the largest hospital in the world[1], occupying 173 acres, with 3200 beds and 6760 staff members. The hospital is in Soweto, South Africa - just outside Johannesburg. It is one of the 40 Gauteng provincial hospitals, and is financed and run by the Gauteng provincial Health Authorities.
Opened in 1941 by Prime Minister Smuts as the Royal Imperial Hospital, Baragwanath, the facility was known as Baragwanath Hospital from 1948. The name Chris Hani was added in 1997 to honour a slain African National Congress and South African Communist Party member.
More than two thousand patients check in to the hospital daily and nearly half of them are HIV positive.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 radiodiaries entry on "Just Another Day at the World's Biggest Hospital"
See also
External links
- Official Website
- Just Another Day at the World's Biggest Hospital on NPR's All Things Considered, December 1, 2003. Includes an audio report and a flash presentation.
- Baragwanath History in South Africa: The Baragwanath family history in South Africa.
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