Somerset hospital to change address

By Nomava Nobumba
23 March 2010

Western Cape Health Department says it will move the Somerset hospital from Green Point to the West Coast region.

Media reports say the hospital will be rebuilt in Dunoon next to the taxi rank, where it is intended to service a large population of the Northern Metropole.

The department says the community the hospital is currently operating in is served mostly by private hospitals, while there is a big and urgent need for the West Coast community to have a public hospital.

The hospital is planned to be moved in few months time.