About the project

Right now, there are over 6000 patients awaiting essential surgery at GSH – and we need your support to help them. The Covid pandemic has brought unparalleled crisis to the healthcare system globally. Surging waves of critically ill patients have necessitated dramatic restructuring of healthcare facilities and massive internal redistribution of healthcare resources, which in the South African context were already stretched by an established quadruple burden of disease. Tertiary academic elective surgical care, already a crucial and scarce resource in the public sector, has ground to a halt.

The Trust has committed to raising R15 million in 2022 to implement a Surgical Recovery programme at the Hospital. Gift of the Givers has partnered with us and is challenging individuals and businesses to match their R5million donation to the Surgical Recovery Project in order to ensure these surgeries can happen and patients’ wellbeing can be restored. Your donation today will make a difference for someone who has been waiting more than 2 years to have their joint replaced, cataract removed or cancer surgery performed.