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Taking better care in Tokai
Murray & Roberts Western Cape is building the Melomed Hospital in Tokai for the Melomed Group
Murray & roberts and Melomed Hospital Holdings improve Western Cape healthcare with new facilities
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new 148 bed hospital is being constructed by Murray & Roberts Western Cape in the southern suburbs of Cape Town. The Melomed Tokai Private Hospital, estimated to cost R350mn (US$26.3mn) and create over 1,000 new jobs, completed before the end of 2015. The project marks a significant vote of confidence in the Western Cape economy and healthcare sector. Melomed Hospital Holdings is the largest wholly black-owned and managed private hospital group in the Western Cape. The Melomed Group had its humble beginnings in 1989, with the Melomed Gatesville Private Hospital (also built by Murray & Roberts) being the first private hospital on the Cape Flats. Melomed then went on to acquire Melomed Mitchells Plain and Melomed Bellville hospitals and in 2014 the group established Melomed Claremont Private Clinic, which is a standalone psychiatric clinic in Claremont. A fully-fledged facility The 17,000 m² Melomed Tokai Private Clinic is situated on the corners of Main and Keyser roads, and will be the only fully-fledged acute medical facility in the immediate and surrounding community, which is currently underserviced with private hospital beds. The hospital will also provide the first and only complete cardiac service for the immediate stabilisation and treatment of cardiac patients in the southern suburbs of Cape Town. This will be ably backed by Melomed24, the Melomed Hospital Holdings Group’s dedicated emergency response ambulance service. The services provided by the hospital will encompass the full spectrum of medical and surgical specialisations and will have 35 adult medical beds and 22 surgical beds. Facilities for babies and children will comprise five neonatal ICU beds and 10 cots. There will
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also be 15 beds for psychiatric patients and another 15 beds will be available for day patients. The facility will also oer speciality services such as renal dialysis, oncology units that cater for chemotherapy and radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, specialised radiology inclusive of MRI and CT scanning facilities and a pathology laboratory. Knowledge-sharing for extended development The Murray & Roberts Western Cape team on the project also completed extensions to the New Kingsbury Hospital, and their
A concrete pour at Melomed Hospital. Murray & Roberts Western Cape used 6,000 m3 of concrete on the project, which has a footprint of 3,000 m2
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