Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital - Johannesburg/Soweto, South Africa
Please be aware that information could be incomplete or outdated. This Unit is still working on its Questionnaire.
- 350 New breast cancer cases treated per year
- 7 Breast multidisciplinarity team members
Clinical Director: Herbert Cubasch (FCS SA)
Our academic surgical teaching unit comprises 3 consultants and 2 registrars, a medical officer and 3 Intern doctors. We service Southern Johannesburg, that includes Soweto and surrounding areas, with an estimated population of 2-2,5 Million. We deal with a socially disadvantaged population with difficult access to health care. Further challenges are poverty, ignorance, stigma, transport problems and a poor primary health referral system. We attempt to help by implementing an open door policy to our clinic, providing health education at every opportunity for patients and primary health care providers and cooperating with NGOs. Our out-patient clinic runs weekly on Wednesday and sees between 120 and 150 patients. Once diagnosed our current waiting time for surgery is one week. Presently about 50% of our cancer patients will present with stage 3 and 4 disease, but wherever feasible and preferred we offer breast conserving and reconstructive surgery. We are having a weekly multidisciplinary meeting with allied specialists from Wits University based at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital where our patients receive their adjuvant Chemo- and Radiotherapy.
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
Old Potch Road
2013 Johannesburg/Soweto, South Africa
Phone: +27119338000
Fax: +27119382002
E-mail: cubasch@worldonline.co.za
Web-site: chrishanibaragwanathhospital.co.za
