Eastern Cape hospital introduces first-of-its-kind-in-South Africa operating table

A hospital in Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape, has become the first in the country to install a new type of operating table. The facility is the Netcare Greenacres Hospital and the new equipment is a Maquet Corin mobile operating table. “Patients rightly think carefully about their surgeon and procedure,” noted Netcare Greenacres Hospital GM Reon van Rensburg. “Our responsibility as a hospital is to support those surgeons with the right equipment, skilled theatre teams and a working environment that enables them to deliver the best possible care to each patient. That includes attention to details that patients may never see, from the advanced equipment available and the training of our surgical support teams to the careful preparation of the theatre for each procedure. Together, these help safeguard patients and give surgeons confidence that the team, equipment, and environment around them are ready, allowing them to focus on the surgery at hand.”