History
The first healthcare institution for Pretoria, was located near the military barracks in Potgieter Street.
On 21 June 1890 President S.J.Paul Kruger laid the foundation stone of the new 130-bed Volkshospitaal. Despite numerous expansions, and underlined by the flu epidemic of 1918, the hospital became inadequate for the city's population.
On 22 April 1927 the foundation stone was laid for the existing hospital the Pretoria General Hospital. In 1967 it was renamed the H F Verwoerd Hospital, in 1997 to the Pretoria Academic Hospital and finally in 2008 to the Steve Biko Academic Hospital. In 2006 the hospital relocated with the old Pretoria Academic Hospital building becoming the Tshwane District Hospital.
The University of Pretoria Faculty of Health Sciences, established in 1943, formed an academic alliance with the hospital.
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