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Life Cosmos Hospital

Life Cosmos Hospital is a private hospital in Witbank, Emalahleni, run by Life Healthcare. A 261-bed hospital with seven theatres, a 25-bed medical ICU, a 10-bed surgical ICU, a six-bed burns unit, a nine-station renal dialysis unit offering holiday dialysis, and a helicopter landing pad. Fixed-fee surgical procedures are available to…

Photographs of Life Cosmos Hospital

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Street view of the signed main entrance canopy at Life Cosmos Hospital with cars parked outside — The building name sits on the gable above the entrance canopy, with a disabled parking sign and bays right at the door.

Boulders and lawn in front of the security gatehouse and visitor parking at Life Cosmos Hospital — A manned guard hut with a boom controls the entrance, and the visitor parking beyond it is fenced off from the road.

Roadside sign for Life Cosmos Hospital on a grass verge pointing to the entrances — The sign on the verge splits the traffic, with a red arrow to the emergency unit and a blue one to the main entrance.

Elevated view over the tiled roofs and car park of Life Cosmos Hospital with the town beyond — Seen from above, the tile roofed wings sit behind a large open car park with a gated entrance off the main road.

Contact and visiting

Telephone	013 653 8000
Emergency	013 653 8002
Address	Cnr OR Tambo Street & Beatty Avenue, Witbank
City	Emalahleni, Mpumalanga
Postal code	1035
Email	christelle.matthee@lifehealthcare.co.za
Website	lifehealthcare.co.za/hospitals/mpumalanga/witbank/life-cosmos-hospital
Beds	261

Life Cosmos Hospital, Cnr OR Tambo Street & Beatty Avenue, Witbank, Emalahleni, Mpumalanga, 1035 Get directions

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Life Cosmos Hospital Visiting Hours

Visiting times

General wards, weekdays
15:00 to 16:00
19:00 to 20:00
General wards, weekends and public holidays
10:30 to 11:00
15:00 to 16:00
19:00 to 20:00
Little Life maternity unit
10:00 to 11:00
15:00 to 16:00
Fathers and siblings 06:00 to 20:00
Neonatal ICU, burns, medical and surgical ICU, Life Kids ward
15:00 to 16:00
19:00 to 20:00

Weekends add a short 10:30 slot at Cosmos that weekdays do not have. The maternity unit is the exception to everything else: fathers and siblings may come from 06:00 to 20:00, and general maternity visiting finishes at 16:00 with no evening slot. Two visitors per patient at a time throughout, and no children under 12 except siblings in maternity. The burns unit takes paediatric and injury-on-duty patients and keeps the same hours as the other intensive care units.