Centrally situated in the growing suburb of Centurion on the southern outskirts of Pretoria, is Netcare Unitas Hospital, South Africa’s largest private hospital.
Our 469-bed facility is equipped with cutting-edge technology and provides world-class healthcare services with the support of a team of highly skilled and experienced healthcare professionals who are committed to service excellence at every level of the hospital’s operations.
The hospital’s emergency department has an accredited level 2 trauma unit with a dedicated helipad, resuscitation facility and an on-site team of Netcare 911 paramedics. The emergency department is able to handle all types of adult and paediatric trauma as well as medical and surgical emergencies.
Netcare Unitas Hospital is home to a number of ‘super specialists’, many of whom are acknowledged leaders within their respective fields of expertise and having achieved several ground-breaking medical firsts. This includes advanced laparoscopic surgery and endovascular procedures.
The state-of-the-art neuro and vascular unit provides specialised treatments to patients suffering from a range of vascular diseases.
The interventional radiology unit at our hospital is equipped with three-dimensional scanning equipment and operates under leading super-specialists whose experience covers the full spectrum of interventional procedures including endovascular, gynaecological and hepato biliary interventions, as well as biopsies and drainages.
Our hospital has no less than three full-time intensivists caring for patients within our ICUs and those receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment.
Paediatric super specialities provided by the facility include paediatric oncology, neurology, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, general surgery and nephrology.
The hospital is also home to a team of dedicated orthopaedic surgeons specialising in hip and knee replacements, spinal procedures, shoulders and upper limbs, hands, lower limbs and sports injuries.
The orthopaedic facility includes the Walk-A-Mile Centre, whose specialists are acknowledged world authorities within the field of external fixators, and who also run an international centre offering training in external fixation and limb reconstruction techniques to specialists from around the world.
The radiotherapy department which serves oncology patients is equipped with rapid arc radiation technology which allows higher doses to be targeted at affected tumour areas while offering better protection to the surrounding normal tissue and critical organs, thereby reducing the side effects of radiation. Stereotactic radiotherapy is offered for both brain tumours and extracranial tumours in, for example, the liver, bladder and lungs.
The cardiology and cardiothoracic surgical unit is equipped with the most advanced medical technology to perform echo-sonar procedures, paediatric and adult cardiology procedures as well as cardiothoracic surgery.
The gastroenterology unit with its state-of-the-art technology treats all diseases of the digestive system, using advanced techniques such as diagnostic and echo endoscopy (endoscopic ultrasound). The unit is run by a team of gastroenterologists, general surgeons and a gastrointestinal surgeon, and has a special focus on gastroscopy, colonoscopy, advanced endoscopic retrograde cholangio pancreatography (ERCP) procedures and the treatment and management of upper gastro-intestinal bleeding.
A counselling support service is offered to patients and family members throughout the period of hospitalisation.