Life Wilgers Hospital

Overview

With 360 beds, Life Wilgers Hospital – in the leafy suburb of Lynnwood Ridge in Pretoria – is one of the largest hospitals in the Life Healthcare Group. At Life Wilgers Hospital the staff prioritise the delivery of a special brand of health and care to patients. The excellent, modern facilities include an accident and emergency unit with a helicopter landing pad, a 46-bed intensive-care unit and a 10-bed neonatal ICU. A first-class team of health professionals from 22 different medical and surgical disciplines are based at this facility, and this puts Life Wilgers Hospital in a position to deal with routine, more serious and extensive procedures, and also to deliver a special brand of health and care to its many patients.

Emergency: 012 807 8135
Telephone: 012 807 8100
Email: sorita.vantonder@lifehealthcare.co.za

Physical address: Denneboom Road, Wilgers Ext. 14, Pretoria, 0040
GPS: -25.762301 : 28.319216

Hospital manager: Chris van Wyk

Visiting hours

All visiting hours listed below have been reviewed according to current lockdown regulations. Please contact the hospital directly for updated information.

For visitation exceptions around neonatal ICU and paediatric wards contact the hospital directly or click here for more information.

We welcome all of our patients’ visitors, as we know what a difference the support of close family and friends can make.

In light of this, we also have to be aware of the rest that all of our patients require and we have thus provided for visitors to visit our hospitals only at certain designated times and these are:

11:00 – 11:30
15:00 – 15:30
19:00 – 19:30

ICU:

15:00 – 16:00
19:00 – 20:00

Maternity:

15:00 – 16:00
19:00 – 20:00

No Children under 12 years

Further to this, other rules apply with respect to visitors and these are:

Visitors are restricted to two per patient at a time.
Children are welcome but they must have an adult supervising them.
No children are allowed in our Intensive Care Units.

Medical services

Cardiology
Cardiothoracic surgery
Dermatology
Ear, nose & throat surgery
General surgery
Gynaecology
Infertility
Internal medicine
Obstetrics
Maxillofacial & oral surgery
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Nuclear medicine
Oncology
Orthopaedic surgery
Paediatrics
Pathology
Plastic & reconstructive surgery
Radiology
Urology
Hyperbaric unit
Pulmonology

Ancillary services

Dietetics
22 hour pharmacy
Physiotherapy

Doctors

Cardio-thoracic surgeon(s)
Dr Martin Bruwer	012 807 0063
Dr Dan du Toit	012 807 2109
Dr Pieter Scholtz	012 807 2109
Dr Karin Verschave	012 807 2109
Cardiologist(s)
Dr Adriaan Snyders	012 807 6186 / 7
Dr Jaco Swanepoel	012 807 1287
Dr Hanneke Dannheimer	012 807 1287
Dr Michael Guerra	012 807 1287
Dr Michael Mwangi	012 807 2452
Dentist(s)
Dr Natalie Constantinides	012 807 0028
Ear, nose & throat surgeon(s)
Dr Harry Engelbrecht	012 807 1005 / 0198
Dr Jannie Enslin	012 807 0774 / 8
Dr Louis Swart	012 807 6869
General surgeon(s)
Dr Francois Greeff	012 807 0278 / 9
Dr Jurgens Leipoldt	012 807 6185
Dr Marthyn de Beer	012 807 2557 / 8
Dr Robbie Viljoen	012 807 3420
Dr Johan Aikman	012 807 4421
Gynaecologist(s)
Dr Chris Niemandt	012 807 0232 / 21
Dr Dirk Vrey	012 807 0232 / 21
Dr Febe Backer	012 807 0860
Dr George Stegmann	012 807 3023
Dr Helga de Meulenaere	012 807 3415
Dr Hester Kruger	012 807 2060 / 1
Dr Hannelie Pienaar	012 807 6489
Dr Johnny Constantinides	012 807 0034 / 5
Dr Janine Potgieter	012 807 5962/3
Dr Liz Radloff	012 807 1956
Maxillofacial & oral surgeon(s)
Dr Fritz Hoogendijk	012 807 3052
Dr Jan Harmse	012 807 1120
Prof Kurt-Wilhelm Bütow	012 807 3065
Medical aesthetics
Dr Salome Hoogendijk	082 855 2389
Neurologist(s)
Dr Chris Retief	012 807 3057
Dr Johan Smuts	073 460 0933
Dr Natanya Fourie	012 807 4450
Dr V Mandita	012 348 2424
Dr Riaan van Coller (Movement Disorders)	012 807 1768
Neurosurgeon(s)
Dr Eddie Gurnell	012 807 6902
Dr Kobus Steyn	012 807 6902
Nuclear physician(s)
Dr Gretha Lange	012 807 2936
Dr Christa Zinn	012 807 2936
Orthopaedic surgeon(s)
Dr Hans Snyckers	012 807 5695
Dr Jan de Vos	012 807 0335
Dr Jason Bithrey	012 807 8280
Dr Phillip Spies	012 807 0197
Dr Piet Engelbrecht	012 807 1298 / 9
Dr Thomas Kruger	012 807 1647
Dr Toni Monni	012 943 0192
Dr Reynard Immelman	012 111 1473
Paediatric orthopaedic surgeon(s)
Dr Stefan Colyn	012 807 5908
Paediatrician(s)
Dr Humphrey Lewis	012 807 0368 / 84
Dr Saskia Coetzee (Paediatric Intensivist)	012 807 0384 / 68
Dr Marius Spangenberg	012 807 5422
Dr Pieter Snyman	012 807 5691
Dr Greg Lamb (Paediatric Neurologist)	012 807 5691
Dr Gerhard Janse van Rensburg	012 807 5691
Dr Alva van der Merwe	012 807 5691
Plastic surgeon(s)
Dr Grysie Annandale	012 807 2695
Dr Ralph Schröder	012 807 5863
Pulmonologist(s)
Dr Peet Viviers	012 807 1801
Radiation oncologist(s)
Dr Ina Botha	012 807 2744
Dr Kobus Bouwer	012 807 2744
Dr Maritha Rossouw	012 807 2744
Dr Sameul Fourie	012 807 2744
Dr Willem van Zijl	012 807 2744
Specialist physician(s)
Dr Cobus Laubscher	012 807 4144
Dr Gerhard Klopper	012 807 5660
Dr Hendrik Venter	012 807 0166 / 7
Dr Kgantso Maloba	012 807 0684
Dr Thabo Makgabo	012 807 8424
Urologist(s)
Dr Christie Steinmann	012 807 0218 / 0380
Dr Julius Jacobs	012 941 1649
Dr Johan Mouton	012 010 0619
Vascular surgeon(s)
Dr Konrad Botes	012 807 0514
Dr Lynn Tudhope	012 807 5510

Contact us

Hospital Manager	Chris van Wyk 012 807 8100
Marketing and communications coordinator	Sorita van Tonder 012 807 8112
Physical address	Denneboom Road Wilgers Ext. 14 Pretoria 0040
	P O Box 73928 Lynnwood Ridge 0040
Telephone	012 807 8100
Fax	012 807 0375
Email	sorita.vantonder@lifehealthcare.co.za
Map	Life Wilgers Hospital