Karl Bremer Hospital

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Karl Bremer Hospital
Western Cape Department of Health
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Karl Bremer Hospital
Geography
LocationBellvile West, Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa
Coordinates 33°53′30″S18°36′28″E / 33.8916°S 18.6079°E / -33.8916; 18.6079
Organisation
Care system Department of Health
Funding Public hospital
Type District General
Services
Emergency department Yes, Major Trauma Centre
History
Opened1956
Links
Other links Tygerberg Hospital, Groote Schuur Hospital

Karl Bremer Hospital is a district general hospital, situated in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa. It was opened in 1956 with one ward. [1] It was originally an academic hospital for medical students of Stellenbosch University and was utilised for this purpose until 1976, after which it changed to a hospital catering for private patients. [1] [2]

Contents

Namesake

The hospital is named after Karl Bremer (1885–1953). [3] [4] Bremer was a Medical Doctor, a Minister of Health in DF Malan’s Cabinet and Vice-chancellor of the Stellenbosch University.

Changes and events through the years

In 1957 the Cape Provincial Administrator, PJ Oliver announced that “Non-European” nurses may receive practical training in the hospital. South Africa was in 1956 a country with race segregation. [5] By 1958 a pathology section was create under Prof HW Weber. [6] The Neurosurgery specialist unit was developed under AP Rose-Innes in 1972. [7] The academic classification was taken away in 1976 and the hospital catered for private patients. An oncology centre was created under Leon Gouws. [8] in 1990, however in 2011 it moved to the suburb Panorama. Karl Bremer hospital status changed to a secondary hospital for government patients in 1996. The hospital has its own Pharmacy. In 2007 the University of the Western Cape started to use the hospital as part of their undergraduate service learning in Pharmacy. This applied to their pharmacy students. [9] The status of the hospital changed in 2009 to become a district hospital status. An emergency section was built in 2013. This emergency section won them the Socio-Economic Pilot award. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]

On 3 December 1967, while Christiaan Barnard was performing the world’s first heart transplant in Groote Schuur Hospital, the heart donor, Denise Darvall also donated her kidneys and they were transplanted in Karl Bremer Hospital. [18] [19]

The South African Government used Karl Bremer hospital as a medical treatment centre for captured political activists (which were opposed to the Ruling party). This was done in a secret way, so that these activists could not be identified. One example is Robert Sobukwe who had an operation on his prostate on 1 February 1967 in the hospital. [20]

Accreditation

The hospital fulfils its States obligation to provide HIV, AIDS and TB-related treatment. HIV counselling is done. The hospital is an accredited antiretroviral (ARV) treatment institution. [21]

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References

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  2. ↑ Die Burger, Newspaper 7 December 1955
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  4. ↑ Encyclopaedia: Afrikaanse kinderensiklopedia, publisher: Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk, second revised edition, Place printed: Elsiesrivier, 1972, Editor Dr. C F Albertyn etal, volume 10, page 192
  5. ↑ "University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg History workshop" (PDF). Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "History department of Pathology" (PDF). Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "History of the division of Neurosurgery" (PDF). Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  8. ↑ "Cancercare" . Retrieved 11 April 2018./
  9. ↑ DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF A MODEL FOR SERVICE LEARNING IN PHARMACY (SLIP) AT A TERTIARY HOSPITAL By Mariam B. Parker, May 2009, p 145
  10. ↑ "Karl Bremer Hospital receives two awards" . Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "Emergency ward Karl Bremer" . Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  12. ↑ Book: 50 years on the Cape Flats : a history - Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University; Karl Bremer Hospital; Tygerberg Hospital. Author; Brink AJ, Dreyer WP. Publisher: Stellenbosch University, Year:2006. ISBN No: 13 978-0-620-37739-3
  13. ↑ Bickford-Smith, V, van Heyningen, E, Worden, N (1999). Cape Town in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated Social History ISBN NO 0-86486-384-5. New Africa Books. ISBN   9780864863843 . Retrieved 16 April 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ Versveld S, de v Basson M M, Oosthuizen A H (28 July 2017). "The South African Medical Journal, Vol 7, No 8, 2017 A retrospective study evaluating the efficacy of identification and management of sepsis at a district-level hospital internal medicine department in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, in comparison with the guidelines stipulated in the 2012 Surviv". South African Medical Journal. 107 (8): 674–678. doi:10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i8.11019 (inactive 2024-11-10). hdl: 10019.1/104732 . PMID   28809612 . Retrieved 16 April 2018.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ "Teaching sites - Karl Bremer Hospital" . Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  16. ↑ "Air Ambulance Services South Africa Karl Bremer Hospital" . Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  17. ↑ "Karl Bremer Hospital" . Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  18. ↑ Morris M. "Historic transplant proudly remembered (Newspaper Weekend Argus 2 December 2017 )" . Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  19. ↑ "Operating Theatres" . Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  20. ↑ "Black Consciousness And White Liberals In South Africa: Paradoxical Anti-Apartheid Politics, By Maimela, M R, December 1999" (PDF). Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  21. ↑ "Karl Bremer Hospital" . Retrieved 11 April 2018.

Other

"Theatre nurses qualify at Karl Bremer". 10 April 1971. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

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