The Acting CEO informed the Committee that Kwa-Mhlanga hospital was classified as a District level one hospital and provides comprehensive care on a 24 hour basis. It provides inpatient care for treatment of common diseases, injuries and normal deliveries. It is a non-specialty facility to which patients from the surrounding clinics are referred. The hospital is in a rural area and its nearest provincial referral hospital is Witbank Hospital which is 112 km away from Kwa-Mhlanga Hospital.