Dr Jehle Port Elizabeth Contact Details

Dr Hansjorg Jehle is a general surgeon in Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth, with rooms at Life St George’s Hospital. Unusually for a specialist, the practice runs its own website, so the contact details here come from the practice itself rather than from a hospital group’s directory.

Official contact channels

Rooms: 087 093 1240
Hours: Monday to Friday, 08:00 – 16:00
Website: drjehlesurgeon.co.za, which carries an online appointment request form.

The appointment form is a request, not a booking. The practice says so plainly on the page: you submit a preferred date and time and they come back to confirm whether it is available. Do not treat a submitted form as a confirmed appointment until you hear back.

The site also publishes a staff mailbox under a first name. It is not reproduced here, because a first-name mailbox is a person rather than a role: it goes stale when staff change and is not covered during leave. The rooms number above is the durable route, and the practice will give you the current address to send documents to.

What this organisation provides

General surgery, with a stated special interest in upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery – the oesophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, bile ducts and pancreas.
Gallbladder and bile duct surgery, reflux and hiatus hernia surgery, and liver and pancreatic procedures fall within that interest.
General surgical work also covers hernia repair, appendicectomy and soft tissue procedures.
The practice shares rooms with a colorectal surgeon, so bowel referrals sent to the wrong one of the two are usually redirected within the same suite rather than bounced back to the GP.
The site publishes a Request for Access to Records form and an Outcome of Request and Fees Payable form, which are the Promotion of Access to Information Act forms for obtaining your medical records.

Address and operating information

Suite 100, Life St George’s Hospital, 40 Park Drive, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), 6001
The practice writes the city in both forms, Gqeberha and Port Elizabeth. Directory listings still carry the older name and some give the postal code as 6020; the practice’s own site gives 6001.
The rooms are inside Life St George’s Hospital on Park Drive.
The site does not publish an HPCSA registration number. To confirm a practitioner is registered and in good standing, contact the Health Professions Council on 012 389 9300.

Support and escalation routes

Bring your referral letter and any scans on disc. Upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary decisions turn on the actual images, and a radiologist’s report alone is often not enough for a surgical opinion.
Surgery needs pre-authorisation from your medical scheme, obtained before the admission date. Confirm what the scheme has authorised in writing.
Ask about the shortfall before the operation. A specialist may charge above the scheme rate, and the difference is yours to pay. Gap cover exists precisely for this and must be in place beforehand.
Several surgical emergencies are Prescribed Minimum Benefits, including acute appendicitis and bowel obstruction, which a scheme must fund regardless of benefit depletion.
Scheme disputes and PMB refusals go to the Council for Medical Schemes after the scheme’s own appeal.
Complaints about professional conduct or standard of care go to the Health Professions Council of South Africa on 012 389 9300.
Complaints about the hospital rather than the surgeon go to Life St George’s Hospital and then to Life Healthcare. The surgeon, the anaesthetist and the hospital all bill separately, which is why one operation produces three accounts.

Sources

Dr Hansjorg Jehle practice website, drjehlesurgeon.co.za, read 4 September 2026 – telephone number, consulting hours, suite and hospital address, special interest, appointment request form and the access to records forms.
HPCSA published switchboard number, hpcsa.co.za.