Corporate Social Investment

Beyond the ward

How private hospitals give back

South Africa’s private hospital sector is often seen through a single lens: world-class care for those who can afford it. But the hospital groups that make up HASA’s membership are quietly doing work that most South Africans never hear about. 

They are restoring sight to people on state waiting lists. They are performing open-heart surgery on children who would otherwise wait years. They are running rape crisis centres, human milk banks and specialist training programmes – not because they are required to, but because they believe that private healthcare has a responsibility to the country it operates in.

This platform tells those stories. It is organised around themes that cut across the sector – the challenges all four major groups are working to address, each in their own way. Explore what HASA’s members are doing in your area of interest, and discover the breadth of a commitment that rarely makes the headlines.

Editorial Note

This feature is a two-part series capturing the CSI stories across all HASA members. Part 1, showcased here, features the four major hospital groups — Netcare, Life Healthcare, Mediclinic and Lenmed. Part 2, which will highlight the remaining HASA members, is currently being developed and will be published soon.

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The 15-minute procedure that changes everything

HASA has partnered with the Cipla Foundation and the Western Cape Department of Health to establish a nursing surgery at the Esidulelweni Wellness Centre in Khayelitsha. This facility offers affordable healthcare services, including family planning, women's health, HIV testing, and wound care, with fees ranging from R20 to R300.

Care that reaches further

An estimated 6,000 South African children are born each year with congenital heart defects. Most of them will eventually reach a public hospital waiting list. Some will not survive long enough to get there.

Off the waiting list

In the Western Cape, a prostate cancer patient arrived at Tygerberg Hospital with a diagnosis and no way to pay for treatment. His case was referred to Mediclinic, where a specialist performed a robotic-assisted prostatectomy – a procedure usually accessible only to patients with comprehensive medical aid. He walked out the next day.

Catching cancer before it catches you

A mammogram takes about twenty minutes. A cervical smear, a few minutes more. A PSA test for prostate cancer is a simple blood draw.

Fed, safe and ready to learn

In South Africa, one in four children under five is stunted – physically and cognitively affected by chronic malnutrition during the years when the brain develops fastest.

Training the specialists South Africa doesn’t have yet

South Africa faces a nursing crisis that gets far less attention than the shortage of doctors. Nurses are at the frontline of every patient interaction – the ones who catch deterioration early, who advocate at the bedside, who hold the clinical environment together.