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Breathing Life into SA Healthcare and beyond Life Healthcare is opening up access to quality, life changing healthcare services across the whole of South Africa and parts of Europe. Group CEO Shrey Viranna reveals how
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uality healthcare delivery, quality patient experience and efficient operations built on strong partnerships – these are the hallmarks of the Life Healthcare Group, a market-leading, diversified and international healthcare provider. Operating with a core purpose of making life better and improving the lives of others, the Group’s mission is to improve lives through the delivery of high quality care and cost-effective services for patients. These services are underpinned by a set of core values. They include a passion for people, quality to the power of ‘e’ (ethics, excellence, empowerment, empathy and energy), performance pride, personal care and lifetime partnerships. The Life Healthcare Group believes that caring for patients stretches beyond simply healing and recovery. It also involves building empathetic relationships with the people who use its hospitals, facilities, services and products.
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evolved over more than three decades. As a result, the Life Healthcare Group is well-positioned to contribute to the advancement of South Africa’s wider healthcare industry as well as that of western Europe and Poland. The Group operates 65 hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout South Africa and Botswana, a presence that is complemented by a portfolio of mental health, acute rehabilitation,
Dr Shrey Viranna, Group CEO
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renal dialysis, oncology and employee health solutions. This comprehensive footprint was established with origins stretching back to 1983 when, what is today known as the Life Healthcare Group, was founded as the hospitals division of African Oxygen Limited (Afrox). The Group’s CEO, Dr Shrey Viranna, talks through some of the key milestones in the Life Healthcare Group’s history. “In 1997, for the first time, Life Healthcare expanded operations outside South Africa by acquiring the Gaborone Hospital in Botswana,” he says. “A year later we began our diversification into complementary health services with the acquisition of Afrox Occupational Health Care, followed by the opening of Life Healthcare’s first rehabilitation, mental health and renal dialysis units in the major centres around South Africa.” The Group’s growth continued with the acquisition of Presmed’s 38 hospitals and healthcare facilities through a merger and reverse listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1999. This was followed by the purchase of the Amahosp Group and the acquisition of a 55 percent share in Life Esidimeni.
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