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Each of the seven planned Centres of Excellence now has a published profile setting out the services it will hold when the hospital opens in the second quarter of 2029.
The three that carry most of the human weight are published in full. Maternity and high-risk obstetrics, neonatal and paediatric intensive care, and fertility for women and for men each have a page describing the planned service, the kind of case it is built for, and the path a family would follow through it. The cases that cost a family most are the ones that involve a mother or a child, and those are the ones most likely to mean a flight out of the region.
Alongside them sit cancer care, cardiac medicine, robotic and neurosurgery, and trauma with renal dialysis, together with the everyday work any major hospital carries: emergency and theatre, imaging and pathology, and intensive care.
The profiles are written for two readers. A family deciding where to be treated can see what will be available and how a referral would work. A clinician weighing where to send a complex case can read the planned scope in English, Setswana, Portuguese, French or Chinese.
Every service described is planned, and opens with the hospital in 2029.