Excel Health (Pty) Ltd was registered as a private limited company under the Companies Act (Act No. 25) 1967 on 09 September 2005, and has since been re-registered under the new Companies Act (Act No. 18) of 2011 per certificate of incorporation No. I2005/602. The shareholders of this company are thirty-three (33) Basotho, mostly doctors practicing at their private clinics in Lesotho, with a few from South Africa. The company aims to be recognised by the Basotho people as a company of Basotho doctors dedicated to offer the best medical services for the people of Lesotho. Maseru Private Hospital provides such an opportunity. Maseru Private Hospital (MPH) started operations in 1996 with the aim of enabling the local doctors to use the facility for general delivery of health services in a privately managed facility. It started as a company, went under and subsequently became the property of the Government of Lesotho through the Ministry of Finance Over a time, the hospital exchanged hands between various management teams, and is currently operated by Excel Health (Pty) Ltd (Excel) on a fifteen-year sublease with the Government of Lesotho, which began in September 2009. It is otherwise licensed by the Ministry of Health per Public Health Order No.12 of 1970. Built at a cost of at least US$100 million and operated under an 18-year contract between the Lesotho Ministry of Health and a consortium assembled by Netcare, the largest operator of private hospitals in South Africa and the UK, the 425-bed facility is an outpost of stylish architectural functionalism in threadbare
Facility Type
hospital
Operator Type
private
Affiliation
Community
Number of Doctors
50
Facility Area (m²)
3.44k
Number of Beds
425
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