Africa is one of the fastest-growing economies and is home to some of the biggest hospitals in the world. Healthcare is very expensive in Africa leading to many being unable to afford quality healthcare. This has led to the majority of Africans not having access to quality healthcare.
The majority of Africans rely on under-funded public healthcare facilities with a few being able to afford quality private healthcare. Some of these quality public and private hospitals are some of the biggest in Africa, providing health care services to people not only in their communities but in surrounding African countries.
This list includes hospitals with some of the biggest staff, many registered beds, and giving quality health care to their communities. Some of these hospitals are not only large but are among the best hospitals in Africa.
10. The Children’s Hospital Trust
The Children’s Hospital Trust is an independent non-profit organization established in 1994. The hospital provides the highest quality healthcare services to children to enable them to feel safe and comforted during times of illness and trauma; to be cared for in a nurturing environment, that is supportive of patient, family, and staff wellbeing; and to be cared for by skilled and supported healthcare professionals equipped with the infrastructure and equipment needed to provide optimal care.
The Trust relies on the benevolence of donors to realize its aims and objectives. All donations go directly to prioritized paediatric healthcare needs and not a single cent is spent on administration costs. They care for sick and injured children with integrity, collaboration, accountability, kindness, and dynamism.
9. Mohammed VI International Hospital
The Mohammed VI International University Hospital (HUIM6) is a private non-profit hospital that offers a wide range of medical care and services.
Located near the Mohammed V airport, the hospital is one of the biggest hospitals in Africa covering an area of 47,000 m² and increasing the hospital capacity in Morocco by 325 beds and places.
Mohammed VI International University Hospital offers its patients a pleasant care space and personalized and efficient care, based on the excellence and quality of a well-honed human capital, based on the latest technological advances both in terms of protocols, technical platforms as well as latest generation equipment, and international standards at its disposal.
8. Diani Beach Hospital
Diani Beach Hospital was established in the year 1997. Over the past 23 years, Diani Beach Hospital has not only established itself firmly but also remains one of thefinest and most experienced private hospitals on the South Coast of Kenya and a leading private hospital in Kenya.
One of the exceptional qualities of the hospital is the quality of their care, the efficiency of their staff, their technological expertise and experience, and their attention to the minutest detail.
They offer a wide range of services like routine consultations, in-patient management, dental services, physiotherapy, laboratory, diagnostic imaging (including digitalized X-rays, CT scans and 3D ultrasound), pharmacy, dialysis, intensive care unit, well-baby, well-man, well-woman clinics, and even specialized facilities like aesthetic medicine.
7. Ganzouri Specialized Hospital
Ganzouri Specialized Hospital (GSH) is a private general hospital, operating & rendering services to the people in Cairo, Egypt for almost 50 years. The hospital was founded by Dr. Mostafa El-Ganzouri in 1971.
It is one of the largest hospitals in Africa with 8 highly equipped operating rooms, 180 Bed facility, 13 Bed Neonatal & Paediatric I. C. U. 30 Highly equipped I.C.Us. 7 N.I.C.U Beds 85 ward Beds. The hospital has more than 145 doctors & consultants in different specialties and sub-specialties. The hospital covers a wide array of highly specialized services and serves a wide base of its community.
Ganzouri Specialized Hospital’s mission is to provide highly specialized integrated quality services, through a chain of connected networks to attain the highest level of customer satisfaction in Egypt and beyond. Its vision is to operate multi-chain hospitals internationally affiliated, covering sets of integrated specializations that target Egypt & MENA region while providing high tech &quality services to achieve the highest customer satisfaction level and to be the first choice of patients in Egypt and the MENA region.
6. Gambro Healthcare
Gambro Healthcare was founded in 1964 by Robert Trafford. It is a global medical technology company, which manufactures products for dialysis treatment. Gambro is a global leader in developing, manufacturing and supplying products and therapies for kidney and liver dialysis.
It is devoted to promoting healthy choices for patients in dialysis and intensive care all over the globe. The healthcare clinic helps thousands of patients throughout the nation and beyond.
5. Institut Pasteur de Madagascar
Institut Pasteur de Madagascar was inaugurated on March 23, 1900. It took its name Institute Pasteur de Madagascar in 1927 and has since become one of the biggest healthcare providers in Africa.
The Institut Pasteur de Madagascar (IPM) is a private Malagasy non-profit scientific and institution and a member of the Pasteur Network. The mission of the IPM is to contribute to the prevention and treatment of diseases and economic development through research, training, and public health activities.
It is part of Pasteur Network whose mission is biomedical research, public health activities and training, in addition to innovation and technology transfer. It has repeatedly demonstrated its role as a major player in the benefit of global health, through the one health approach to actively contribute to improving the health of populations.
4. Life Healthcare Group
Life Healthcare Group, formerly Afrox Healthcare, is the second largest private hospital operator in South Africa, with 6,500 beds. It is also the largest black-owned hospital operator in South Africa.
The hospital emphasizes life, health, and care and this is evident in their dedication to the well-being and quality of life, clinical excellence in world-class facilities, quality service, respect, and a spirit of giving to those entrusted to their care.
Their purpose is to make life better, and they fulfill that purpose by means of a compassionate and patient-centric approach. The hospital’s vision is to be an international healthcare provider delivering measurable clinical quality through a diversified offering and a people-centered approach.
3. Netcare
Netcare Limited is an investment holding company that operates through a number of subsidiaries and employs approximately 29 000 people. The company continually operates by continuously investing in the latest technologies, and high-level professional expertise and is committed to caring for its patients.
The hospital operates 51 hospitals, 2 public-private partnership hospitals, 10,605 registered hospital beds, 422 theatres, 10 cancer care centers, 63 renal dialysis units, 95 primary healthcare centers, 15 medicross day theatres, 79 emergency sites, and 12 mental health and psychiatric clinics with 841 beds. In South Africa, Netcare operates the largest private hospital, primary healthcare, emergency medical services, and renal care networks.
In addition to its world-class hospital services, the Group offers primary healthcare, sub-acute care, day surgery, occupational health, and employee wellness services.
2. As Salam International Hospital
As-Salam International Hospital opened its doors in 1982 and is now one of the largest private-sector tertiary care hospitals in Africa. It is located in Cairo, Egypt with an extraordinary location facing the Nile River and the Great Pyramids.
The hospital uses international standards and is equipped with the latest technologies, as well as well-trained professional staff. As-Salam International Hospital is the third hospital worldwide and the first in the middle east to be granted clinical care certification by the Joint Commission International for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the nineteenth hospital worldwide to be granted clinical care certification by the Joint Commission International for the Acute Myocardial Infarction in 2019.
The hospital is one of the biggest hospitals in Africa with over 700 physicians and 400 nurses working around the clock to achieve outstanding clinical care and a friendly atmosphere for all patients. The hospital is working towards its mission to build a world-class center of excellence in 7 tertiary care specialties and create exceptional standards of medical and service excellence.
- Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is the 3rd largest hospital in the world, and the largest in Africa, occupying around 173 acres (0.70 km2), with approximately 3’200 beds and about 6’760 staff members. The hospital is in the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa, and began operation on 1st April 1948.
The facilities are housed in 429 buildings with a total surface area of 233’795 m2. Approximately 70% of all admissions are emergencies, including approximately 160 victims of gunshot wounds per month. Accident, emergency, and ambulance represent the busiest services, counting over 350 daily patients. Every year, about 150’000 inpatient and 500’000 outpatient cases are registered. The Department of Ophthalmology, the St John Eye Hospital, has 111 beds and counts about 50’000 patients per year. Approximately 60’000 patients per year are treated in the Maternity Hospital.
It is a teaching hospital for the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, along with the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Helen Joseph Hospital, and the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital. It serves as a referral hospital for a large part of the country, including surrounding African States.