CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY
Our vision to bring high quality healthcare to this under-served region of Senegal will help assure its future wellbeing. We also know the responsibilities of being a Guédiawaye local, and we’re working with the community and environmental leaders every step of the way to carefully conserve and improve the biodiversity of our bushland setting.
A GOOD NEIGHBOUR
We’re looking forward to enriching life in Guédiawaye. We’re reaching out to local schools, artists and writers to find creative, long-term ways to participate. If you’re our neighbour, we want to make you proud to have us in your community.
WELL PLACED FOR A CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIC
There are currently few operating theatres available to meet the needs of residents in Dakar’s northern beaches, a rapidly growing primary catchment area. Senegal General Hospital’s two theatres will provide a welcome resource to treat this under-served area with its growing, ageing and highly insured population.
PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY
To guarantee the diversity of the native flora and fauna within our boundaries, our biodiversity agreement was commissioned as part of our commitment to responsible stewardship.
SHELTERING VULNERABLE SPECIES
Our property is home to the vulnerable Gyps Africanus and the critically endangered Baphia Heudelotiana. To ensure their survival and increase their numbers, we’ve engaged an outside ecologist to make ongoing surveys and provide recommendations for managing the site.
A SENEGALESE FIRST IN SUSTAINABILITY
Senegal General Hospital is designed to the international standards for sustainability – the only hospital in Senegal that plans to meet this rating.
The building standard is the first rating system to focus exclusively on the impacts of buildings on human health and wellness. We’ve gone above and beyond to embrace this standard because we believe in that everyone who shares the hospital environment – patients, staff, doctors and residents – should share in the benefits of good health.
DESIGN FEATURES
- Senegal General Hospital’s design philosophy places a premium on developing an attractive, boutique, natural aesthetic throughout the hospital grounds
- Our development footprint leaves the sensitive coastal swamp environmental area untouched
- Measures are in place to facilitate the easy movement of animal populations across to nearby Senegal’s forest
- The natural setting will aid patient recovery by providing generous natural light, fresh air and access to the garden and bushland