Karl Bremer Hospital
{{short description|Hospital in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa}}
{{Infobox hospital
| Name = Karl Bremer Hospital
| Org/Group = Western Cape Department of Health
| Image = Kbh.jpg
| Caption = Karl Bremer Hospital 2018
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| coordinates = {{coord|-33.8916|18.6079|type:edu_region:ZA|display=inline,title}}
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| Location = Bellvile West
| Region = Bellville
| State = Western Cape
| Country = South Africa
| HealthCare = Department of Health
| Funding = Public
| Type = District General
| Emergency = Yes, Major Trauma Centre
| Affiliation =
| Beds =
| Founded = 1956
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| other_links = Tygerberg Hospital, Groote Schuur Hospital|
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Karl Bremer Hospital is a district general hospital, situated in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa. It was opened in 1956 with one ward.{{cite web|url=http://gtp.org.za/karl-bremer-hospital|title=Karl Bremer Hospital|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=24 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424185828/http://gtp.org.za/karl-bremer-hospital/|url-status=live}} It was originally an academic hospital for medical students of Stellenbosch University and was utilised for this purpose until 1976, after which it changed to a hospital catering for private patients.Die Burger, Newspaper 7 December 1955
Namesake
The hospital is named after Karl Bremer (1885–1953).{{cite web|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/dr-karl-bremer-minister-health-dr-malans-cabinet-born-hopefield|title=Dr Karl Bremer Minister of Health in Dr Malan's cabinet. is born in Hopefield|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=10 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010011315/http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/dr-karl-bremer-minister-health-dr-malans-cabinet-born-hopefield|url-status=live}}Encyclopaedia: Afrikaanse kinderensiklopedia, publisher: Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk, second revised edition, Place printed: Elsiesrivier, 1972, Editor Dr. C F Albertyn etal, volume 10, page 192 Bremer was a Medical Doctor, a Minister of Health in DF Malan’s Cabinet and Vice-chancellor of the Stellenbosch University.
Changes and events through the years
In 1957 the Cape Provincial Administrator, PJ Oliver announced that “Non-European” nurses may receive practical training in the hospital. South Africa was in 1956 a country with race segregation.{{cite web|url=http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/7925/HWS-267.pdf?sequence=1|title=University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg History workshop|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=15 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815005134/http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/7925/HWS-267.pdf?sequence=1|url-status=live}} By 1958 a pathology section was create under Prof HW Weber.{{cite web|url=https://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/healthsciences/pathology/Documents/HISTORY%20DEPARTMENT%20OF%20PATHOLOGY.pdf|title=History department of Pathology|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=4 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304114411/http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/healthsciences/pathology/Documents/HISTORY%20DEPARTMENT%20OF%20PATHOLOGY.pdf|url-status=live}} The Neurosurgery specialist unit was developed under AP Rose-Innes in 1972.{{cite web|url=https://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/healthsciences/surgical-sciences/Documents/Neurosurgery_history.pdf|title=History of the division of Neurosurgery|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=19 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019164039/https://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/healthsciences/surgical-sciences/Documents/Neurosurgery_history.pdf|url-status=live}}
The academic classification was taken away in 1976 and the hospital catered for private patients. An oncology centre was created under Leon Gouws.{{cite web|url=http://cancercare.co.za/contact/panorama|title=Cancercare|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=5 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905235119/http://cancercare.co.za/contact/panorama/|url-status=live}}/ in 1990, however in 2011 it moved to the suburb Panorama. Karl Bremer hospital status changed to a secondary hospital for government patients in 1996. The hospital has its own Pharmacy. In 2007 the University of the Western Cape started to use the hospital as part of their undergraduate service learning in Pharmacy. This applied to their pharmacy students.DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF A MODEL FOR SERVICE LEARNING IN PHARMACY (SLIP) AT A TERTIARY HOSPITAL
By Mariam B. Parker, May 2009, p 145 The status of the hospital changed in 2009 to become a district hospital status. An emergency section was built in 2013. This emergency section won them the Socio-Economic Pilot award.{{cite web|url=https://www.netwerk24.com/ZA/Tygerburger/Nuus/karl-bremer-hospital-receives-two-awards-20160621-2|title=Karl Bremer Hospital receives two awards |access-date=16 April 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.siyazama.co.za/projects/karl-bremer-hospital-new-emergency-ward/|title=Emergency ward Karl Bremer|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=19 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019205545/http://www.siyazama.co.za/projects/karl-bremer-hospital-new-emergency-ward/|url-status=live}}Book: 50 years on the Cape Flats : a history - Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University; Karl Bremer Hospital; Tygerberg Hospital. Author; Brink AJ, Dreyer WP. Publisher: Stellenbosch University, Year:2006. ISBN No: 13 978-0-620-37739-3{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SkxmcdhpPbMC&q=%22Karl+bremer+hospital%22+awarded&pg=PA186|title=Cape Town in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated Social History ISBN NO 0-86486-384-5 |access-date=16 April 2018 |author=Bickford-Smith, V, van Heyningen, E, Worden, N|year=1999 |publisher=New Africa Books |isbn=9780864863843 }}{{cite journal |url=http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/12039 |title=The South African Medical Journal, Vol 7, No 8, 2017 A retrospective study evaluating the efficacy of identification and management of sepsis at a district-level hospital internal medicine department in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, in comparison with the guidelines stipulated in the 2012 Surviv |access-date=16 April 2018 |author=Versveld S, de v Basson M M, Oosthuizen A H |journal=South African Medical Journal |date=28 July 2017 |volume=107 |issue=8 |pages=674–678 |doi=10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i8.11019 |doi-broken-date=2024-11-10 |pmid=28809612 |hdl=10019.1/104732 |hdl-access=free |archive-date=2 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180602085637/http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/12039 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/healthsciences/Family%20Medicine%20and%20Primary%20Care/Pages/Karl-Bremer-Hospital.aspx |title=Teaching sites - Karl Bremer Hospital |access-date=27 April 2018 |archive-date=6 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406141347/http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/healthsciences/Family%20Medicine%20and%20Primary%20Care/Pages/Karl-Bremer-Hospital.aspx |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.globalairrescue.com/hospitals/air-ambulance-karl-bremer-hospital-south-africa.php |title=Air Ambulance Services South Africa Karl Bremer Hospital |access-date=27 April 2018 |archive-date=19 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019205612/http://www.globalairrescue.com/hospitals/air-ambulance-karl-bremer-hospital-south-africa.php |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.travelground.com/attractions/karl-bremer-hospital |title=Karl Bremer Hospital |access-date=27 April 2018 |archive-date=4 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504225231/https://www.travelground.com/attractions/karl-bremer-hospital |url-status=live }}
On 3 December 1967, while Christiaan Barnard was performing the world’s first heart transplant in Groote Schuur Hospital, the heart donor, Denise Darvall also donated her kidneys and they were transplanted in Karl Bremer Hospital.{{cite web | url= https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20171202/283549450975578 | title= Historic transplant proudly remembered (Newspaper Weekend Argus 2 December 2017 ) | access-date=17 April 2018|author=Morris M }}{{cite web | url= https://heartofcapetown.co.za/operating-theaters/ | title= Operating Theatres | access-date= 17 April 2018 | archive-date= 4 May 2018 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180504230748/https://heartofcapetown.co.za/operating-theaters/ | url-status= live }}
The South African Government used Karl Bremer hospital as a medical treatment centre for captured political activists (which were opposed to the Ruling party). This was done in a secret way, so that these activists could not be identified. One example is Robert Sobukwe who had an operation on his prostate on 1 February 1967 in the hospital.{{cite web | url=http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/17296/thesis_maimela_mr.pdf?sequence=1 | title=Black Consciousness And White Liberals In South Africa: Paradoxical Anti-Apartheid Politics, By Maimela, M R, December 1999 | access-date=17 April 2018 | archive-date=16 August 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816054057/http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/17296/thesis_maimela_mr.pdf?sequence=1 | url-status=live }}
Accreditation
The hospital fulfils its States obligation to provide HIV, AIDS and TB-related treatment. HIV counselling is done. The hospital is an accredited antiretroviral (ARV) treatment institution.{{cite web|url=http://search.info4africa.org.za/Organisation?Id=84092|title= Karl Bremer Hospital|access-date=11 April 2018}}
References
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Other
{{cite web | url= http://www.digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/collection/islandora-15614 | title=Theatre nurses qualify at Karl Bremer| date=10 April 1971| access-date=17 April 2018}}
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