Komga Hospital is a small provincial

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-funded

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for the

Great Kei Local Municipality Great Kei Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Amathole District Municipality, Amathole District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The name "Kei" is of Khoi language, Khoi origin, meaning "sand". The municipality is named after ...

area in

Komga Komga is a town in Amatole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is located north of East London and east of Stutterheim. It was founded as a farming centre in 1877 on the site of a military camp established in ...

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. In 1997 the old hospital in Rhodes Avenue closed and moved to the new hospital situated in Victoria Road which was built by Public Works. The hospital departments include an

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and paediatrics wards, outpatient department, medical services,

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, anti-retroviral treatment for

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services,

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services, kitchen services, and a mortuary.

References

Eastern Cape Department of Health website - Amathole District Hospitals
Hospitals in the Eastern Cape Amathole District Municipality {{SouthAfrica-hospital-stub