Services at Tygerberg Hospital

A full range of general specialist and sub-specialist services include:

• Carel du Toit Centre for the Hearing Impaired.
• Centre for Mental Health.
• Clinical Nutrition and Vitaminology Service.
• Clinical Retinal Laboratory.
• Cochlear Implant Unit.
• Complex Craniofacial Surgery Unit.
• Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
• Complex Radiation and Oncological Therapy.
• Day Surgery Unit.
• In-Vitro Fertilisation.
• Kidney Transplant Unit.
• Laboratory for Human Genetics.
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• Neuropsychiatry Unit.
• Open Heart Surgery Unit.
• Perinatal Mortality Unit.
• Poison Information Centre.
• Postnatal Stress Disorder Unit.
• Specialised Pulmonary Function Laboratory.
• Tuberculosis Clinical Work Unit.
• TygerBear Unit - Social Work Unit.
• MRI with FMRI Facility and Additional 3t MRI Machine.
• Oncology.
• Only Adult Burns Unit in the Western Cape.
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Facility.
• 26-Bed Private Ward.

These services provide for advanced health care to all patients, as well as training of large numbers of doctors (under- and postgraduate) and all other types of clinical staff.