Emergency

Our experienced team of medical doctors and nursing staff in the emergency centre at Mediclinic Louis Leipoldt are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist you and your family with any medical emergencies that may arise.

All patients visiting the emergency centre maybe experiencing serious illness or injury in various degrees, an international triage system is used to ensure that patients with life-threatening and severe conditions must be treated first and is determined by a system called Triage.

Triage, from the French word “trier”, literally means: “to sort”. The aim is to bring “the greatest good to the greatest number of people” – this is achieved through prioritising limited resources to achieve the greatest possible benefit. Patients are sorted with a scientific triage scale in order of urgency - the end result is that the patient with the greatest need is helped first.