Services offered at Eshowe Hospital
- Anesthetics
- Antiretroviral roll-out programme (ARV)
Blood bank - Casualty
- Crisis care for adult and child abuse
- Dental services
- Dietetics
- Laboratory
- Mental health services
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- OPD services
- Occupational health,
- Optometry
- Psychology
- Physiotherapy
- Primary Health Care Services – 2 fixed clinics and 51 mobile service points
- Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMCT)
- Radiology
- Pharmacy
- Social Welfare
- Theatre
- Voluntary counselling testing (VCT)
Clinics falling under Eshowe Hospital
- Eshowe Gateway Clinic (operating Monday to Friday 7am-4pm)
- King Dinizulu Clinic (Operating 7 days, 24 hours )
- Siphilile Clinic (Operating 7 days a week, 7am-4pm)
- Nkwalini Clinic (Operating 7 days a week, 7am-4pm)
- Ekuphumuleni Clinic (operates 7 days, 7am-4pm and has an on call system)
Eshowe District Hospital, which was opened on 10 August 1956 by Dr. R.E Stevenson and councillor E.J.V Granthan.
The hospital was initially serving as a Regional Hospital which catered for Eshowe, Nkandla, Mtunzini, Mthonjaneni, Babanango, Mahlabathini and other places further afield. Dr. Mike Adhams was the first then superintendent of the hospital who was followed by the others till 2002 when Mrs ETB Mkhize became the first African Female CEO of the hospital.
The hospital was fortunate to have a number of specialists amongst who were Dr. Larsen (Obstetritian & Gynaecologist) who dealt with high incidents of complicated deliveries with not enough staff to look after them; Dr. Chapman a specialist paedetritian who motivated for the building of the neonatal ward – this resulted in premature babies of 750 grams no longer dying as they were nursed to a good discharge weight of 2.5 kg.