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Weskoppies is a public psychiatric hospital in Pretoria, Gauteng. It is situated to the west of the city centre and was built on the site of the old botanical gardens.
Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital | |
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Department of Health | |
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Geography | |
Location | Salvokop, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa |
Coordinates | 25°45′27″S 28°09′54″E / 25.757629°S 28.16498°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public |
Type | Psychiatric |
Affiliated university | University of Pretoria Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University |
Services | |
Beds | 1400 |
History | |
Opened | 1892 |
The hospital is used by the University of Pretoria and the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, and others, as a teaching hospital.
History
editIn 1892 the first psychiatric institution in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, the Krankzinnigengesticht te Pretoria (Pretoria Lunatic Asylum), was established in 1892, later being renamed as the Weskoppies Hospital.[1]
References
edit- ^ Plug, C; Roos, J. L. (1992). "Weskoppies Hospital, founded 1892 – the early years" (PDF). South African Medical Journal. 81 (2): 218–21. PMID 1738912.
External links
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