1. Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital
a family dedicated to care
FACT |
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2. A state-of-the-art specialist paediatric
academic and tertiary referral hospital
providing child-centred best quality
medical services to children of Southern
Africa, irrespective of their social and
economic status.
Vision

3. Support
Government support directed through
the active involvement of the National
Department of Health (NDoH) and
Gauteng Department of Health and
Social Development (GDHSD). The NDoH
ensures policy alignment to
Modernisation of Tertiary Services. The
GDHSD guides strategic fit to provincial
health delivery plans and operations to
be pitched at the right level.

4. NMCF’s Role
• Champion the creation of a child-centred health
facility to impact upon those who are treated and
work in it.
• Smooth the progress for the establishment of a
teaching hospital driven by research at the
cutting edge.
• Build a hospital that marks the turning point on
how Africa views its children by providing state-
of-the-art specialist health care to all children.
• Delegate Wits University to offer academic
leadership, coupled with the responsibility to
guarantee the involvement and participation of
all medical faculties to attain a full spectrum of
services to be offered as per complete set of its
centres of excellence.

5. Location
After scrutiny and due process the site location, the Wits Education Campus ― in
Parktown, adjacent to the Wits Medical School and Charlotte Maxeke Hospital ― was
ruled the most viable for the Hospital. Agreement with Wits regarding the land was
entered into in July 2009.
Size
200-bed, 8-theatre hospital with state-of-the-art diagnostic capabilities with expansion
to 300 beds.

6. Staff
Will employ approximately 655 staff, including specialist doctors and nurses, and will
contribute to the training of paediatric professionals. An agreement has been reached
with GDHSD to train medical professionals.
Staffing Strategy
To use a majority of South African professionals and attract back South African medical
professionals currently working overseas. Specialised nurse training will be in
partnership with Wits prior to the opening of NMCH. The nursing strategy places
nurses at the core of holistic paediatric care.

7. Hospital Design
Child and environmentally-friendly design and service considerations to ensure a
holistic healing experience. Architecture by Sheppard Robson International, in
conjunction with South African Architects GAPP and Ruben Reddy.
Governance
Operating (Section 21 company) and Asset company reporting to the Nelson Mandela
Hospital Trust.

8. Academic Arrangement
In partnership with Wits Medical School as a primary base, but with engagement of all
medical training facilities in the region in line with the Hospital Centres of Excellence.
Cost
Capital Costs: R1-billion | to be raised by the Trust
Operating Costs: Public patients | Department of Health
Private patients | Medical Aid funds
Indigent patients | The Trust
Time Frames
Design: December 2011
Construction & Commissioning: 2012

9. • Haematology & Oncology
• Cardiology & Cardiothoracic
Surgery
• Neurosciences
• Renal/Kidney
• Endocrine - Diabetes
• Craniofacial
• Paediatric Surgery
CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
Speciality Centres in line with
Government’s MTS Plan

10. MILESTONES
July 2009 |
• Wits commits land to NMCH
• Sod-Turning Ceremony/ Site Dedication
• Government commitment to the project
August 2009 |
• Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Trust
registered
April 2010 |
• Design of the Hospital commences
• Mrs. Graca Machel appointed Chair of the Trust
July 2010 |
• NMCH project receives commendation from
KPMG International as Infrastructure Project of
the Year
• Exemption from Private Hospital License (i.e.
license to operate) received from GDHSD
October 2010 |
• MOU signed with GDHSD
November 2010 |
• Ms. Bongi Mkhabela appointed CEO of the Trust