Oudtshoorn Hospital is reached on 044 203 7200. It is in Park Road, Wes Bank, Oudtshoorn, 6620, and it operates 24 hours a day. The number comes from the Western Cape Government’s own facility listing, which is the source we treat as authoritative for provincial hospitals.
ContactDetails.co.za is an independent directory. We are not the hospital or the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness. We cannot book a bed, arrange an appointment, look up a file or chase a result. This page exists to get you to the right desk quickly.
If this is an emergency
Call 10177 for an ambulance, or 112 from any mobile phone. This matters more in the Klein Karoo than in a metro. Distances between towns here are long, an ambulance may be dispatched from further away than you expect, and every minute spent trying a hospital switchboard first is a minute the dispatcher does not have. The switchboard cannot send a vehicle.
Verified contact details
Checked against the Western Cape Government facility page on 24 August 2026.
| What it is for | Contact |
|---|---|
| Hospital switchboard | 044 203 7200 |
| Physical address | Park Road, Wes Bank, Oudtshoorn, 6620 |
| Operating hours | 24 hours, every day |
| Ambulance, nationally | 10177 |
| Emergency from any mobile | 112 |
| Health Ombud, standard of care | 080 911 6472 |
One switchboard, many departments
A provincial hospital of this size publishes one number and no departmental direct lines. That is deliberate rather than an oversight: ward extensions change, and a stale direct line is worse than a switchboard that can redirect. It does mean the quality of your call depends almost entirely on what you have ready before you dial.
- Say the ward or department by name if you know it. “Maternity” or “casualty” routes faster than describing the problem.
- Have the patient’s full name and date of admission. Switchboards will not search on a first name.
- Have your hospital file number from your card or appointment letter for anything about your own care.
- Avoid mid-morning if the call can wait. Shift handover and ward rounds are when switchboards are least able to find anyone.
Getting seen here in the first place
Outside of an emergency, a provincial hospital is entered by referral. The route runs from a clinic or community health centre, which handles routine consultations, chronic medicine, immunisation and antenatal care, upward to the hospital when the clinic decides that is the right level of care. Anything the clinic can treat, the clinic is supposed to treat.
Specialist services that a district hospital does not provide are referred onward again, to the regional hospital for the Garden Route district. You cannot self-refer up that chain, and arriving at a hospital without the letter usually means being sent back down it. Where you live determines which clinic is your entry point, so the clinic nearest you is the correct first call for a non-urgent problem, not this switchboard.
What it costs
Public healthcare in South Africa is means-tested, not uniformly free. Fees are set by the Uniform Patient Fee Schedule and scaled to household income. Pregnant women, children under six and several other categories are treated free of charge regardless of income.
Bring proof of income if you have it, because it determines what you are asked to pay. Not having it does not mean being turned away. Nobody in need of emergency care is refused treatment for lack of documents.
What to bring
- Your identity document, or the patient’s.
- Your clinic card and hospital file number if you have attended before.
- The referral letter for any non-emergency visit.
- Your medicines in their packaging, which is more reliable than trying to recall names and doses.
- Proof of income where you have it.
If the care was poor
- Start at the hospital and insist on a written reference number. Without it the later stages have nothing to trace.
- Escalate to the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness, which is responsible for the facility.
- Then the Health Ombud on 080 911 6472, or [email protected]. The Ombud sits inside the Office of Health Standards Compliance, investigates the standard of care at any facility, and will ask what the earlier stages said.
- Conduct by a specific doctor or nurse is a different complaint, and goes to the HPCSA or the South African Nursing Council rather than the Ombud.
The scam to watch for
No one can sell you a place in a public hospital queue. Beds, theatre slots and appointment dates are allocated on clinical need. Anyone offering to arrange an earlier date for a fee, particularly into a personal bank account, is running a scam. The same applies to anyone promising a guaranteed cure: practitioners must be registered with the HPCSA and medicines must be registered with SAHPRA to be sold lawfully, and both registers can be checked.
Related contact pages
- Healthcare contact pages
- Public hospitals and clinics contact details
- Complaints and escalation contact pages
- How to verify a contact number before you use it
Frequently asked questions
What is the number for Oudtshoorn Hospital?
044 203 7200. It is the hospital’s single switchboard number, and the Western Cape Government facility listing publishes no separate departmental lines.
Is it called Oudtshoorn Provincial Hospital?
People commonly search for it that way, and it is a provincial facility, but the Western Cape Government lists it simply as Oudtshoorn Hospital. Both refer to the same hospital in Park Road.
Can I go straight to the hospital without seeing a clinic?
In an emergency, yes. Otherwise the system expects a referral from a clinic or community health centre, and arriving without one usually means being redirected there.
How do I find out which ward a patient is in?
Phone the switchboard with the patient’s full name and the date they were admitted. Staff will not search on a first name alone.
Who is responsible for this hospital?
The Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness. The national Department of Health sets policy but does not run facilities and will refer individual complaints back to the province.
Details on this page were checked against the Western Cape Government facility listing on 24 August 2026. Where a detail has changed, the official source is always the authority.