Life Healthcare Group

Life Healthcare Group, formerly Afrox Healthcare, is the second largest private hospital operator in South Africa, with 6,500 beds. It is also the largest black-owned hospital operator in South Africa.^[2]

Life Healthcare Group

Trade name	JSE: LHC
Company type	Public
Key people	Peter Wharton-Hood (CEO) 01 September 2020 −
Revenue	R 18.5 Billion (2019) [1]
Operating income	R 2.8 Billion (2019)[1]
Website	lifehealthcare.co.za

Afrox was traded on the JSE Securities Exchange until it was sold to Business Venture Investments Limited (Bidco), a black empowerment group, in 2005.^[3][4]

It bought Alliance Medical for about 10.4 billion rand, in November 2016.^[5]