The National Department of Health, which is to submit 11 funding bids to the Budget Facility for Infrastructure (BIF) for projects linked to various hospitals and clinics, has listed the facilities that are expected to be affected, reports IOL.
At the tabling of the R64.8bn national budget for 2026 in the National Council of Provinces last month, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said the National Treasury had announced four bid windows this financial year for departments to bid for any infrastructure more than R1bn.
Included in the BIF project applications are Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, Soshanguve District Hospital, Diepsloot District Hospital, Thabang District Hospital, Eldorado Park Hospital, and Holomisa Hospital in Holomisa informal settlement in Gauteng.
Others are Victoria Mxenge (King Edward VIII) Academic Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga Mental Health Hospital in Mpumalanga, as well as Tshilidzini Regional Hospital and Elim Hospital in Limpopo.
Motsoaledi noted that while many of the facilities were in Gauteng, that was because the population had expanded dramatically, from 6m in 1994 to about 16m.
“The facilities there are just overwhelmed.”
He added that six community health centres, which will be announced in due course, will also form part of the BIF applications.
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