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National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003)RegulationsRegulations relating to Categories of Hospitals6. Central Hospitals |
(1) | A central hospital— |
(a) | must provide tertiary hospital services and central referral services and may provide national referral services; |
(b) | must provide training of health care providers; |
(c) | must conduct research; |
(d) | receives patients referred to it from more than one province; |
(e) | must be attached to a medical school as the main teaching platform; and |
(f) | must have a maximum of 1200 beds. |
(2) | Central referral services are provided in highly specialised units, require unique, highly skilled and scarce personnel and at a small number of sites nationwide. |
(3) | National referral services— |
(a) | refer to super-specialised national referral units; and |
(b) | represents extremely specialised and expensive services (e.g. heart and lung transplant, bone marrow transplant, liver transplant, cochlear implants). |