VWSA donates decommissioned beds from Covid Field hospital

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As part of its Field Hospital Legacy project, Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) has supported the critical offerings of several local clinics, hospitals and other institutions, by donating containers and other equipment from the decommissioned Rev. Dr Elizabeth Mamisa Chabula-Nxiweni Field Hospital.

The Field Hospital, which opened in June 2020 to support healthcare efforts with 1 485 beds during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, was decommissioned when the facility was no longer critical to Nelson Mandela Bay’s fight against the pandemic.

Following the decommissioning process, the decision was made to repurpose and re-install 11 containerised ablution facilities to the benefit of local clinics and hospitals.

The containers were given to Uitenhage Provincial Hospital, Dora Nginza Hospital, West End Clinic, Laetitia Bam Clinic and the Motherwell CHC.

Additionally, Uitenhage Provincial Hospital and Dora Nginza Hospital were among the recipients of beds and bedside lockers that were originally purchased for the Field Hospital.

• 800 medical beds, 280 wooden beds and 1 959 bedside lockers donated to eight Department of Health facilities across the Eastern Cape
• 302 wooden beds and 170 bedside lockers donated to 15 Old Age Homes in Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) and Buffalo City Metro (BCM)
• 902 wooden beds and 383 bedside lockers donated to 15 Child and Youth Care centres in both metro's