The Maguga Dam Project
Komati Basin Water Authority (KOBWA)
The Maguga Dam Clinic
The Maguga Dam Clinic was completed at the end of November 1999 and was fully functional and running at the beginning of December 1999. The building was designed by local architects and built by local Swaziland builders.
The clinics main function is to be a Trauma Facility to handle any major accidents on the Maguga Dam site. The clinic also provides a Primary Health Care service to all 1300 workers on the Project and to limited numbers of their immediate family as well as providing a service to surrounding communities. The clinic has two ambulances based at the clinic and has a helicopter and fixed wing aircraft on stand-by from Nelspruit for any evacuations.
The clinic is open 24 hours a day when there is active construction on the dam site and clinic staff are on 24 hour stand-by roster doe any other emergencies. There are two consulting rooms, an emergency room and sluice, suturing and fracture room, occupational health consulting room, two four bed wards, doctors and sisters offices and store rooms.
The clinic has been equipped with modern surgical technology and can handle any major medical or sugical emergency. Trauma and intensive care doctors and sisters staff the clinic with highly trained paramedics manning the ambulances.
The project to construct the Clinic was awarded to Wilson Bayly Holmes Overkon (WBHO) for an original contract amount of E1 000 000.
At the end of the Project the clinic will be handed over to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Health.
Further Details
Further details of the project can be obtained from:
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The Komati Basin Water Authority (KOBWA)
Suite 1010 The Pinnacle
1 Parkin Street
PO Box 5085
Nelspruit 1200
Republic of South Africa
Tel +27 1311 23 191
Fax +27 1311 24 704
Email kobwanpt@cis.co.za
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The Swaziland Komati Project Enterprise (SKPE)
4th Floor Dhlan'ubeka House
Cnr. Tin & Walker Streets
Mbabane
Swaziland
Tel +268 404 7950
Fax +268 404 7954
Email: komatpcu@realnet.co.sz Website: www.ecs.co.sz/komati/ |
The information provided above does NOT in any way represent the OFFICIAL opinion or views of KOBWA or the Swaziland Government about the Maguga Dam Project
This page was last updated on 05 November 2001
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