Medical & Health
Doctors, dentists, pharmacies, hospitals, and healthcare providers.
Elmed Gastroenterology
Specialist gastroenterology practice offering endoscopy, colonoscopy, liver disease management, and digestive health consultations. Led by experienced gastroenterologists.
Life Beacon Bay Hospital
Private hospital providing a full range of medical and surgical services including maternity, ICU, emergency care, and specialist outpatient clinics.
Beacon Bay Physiotherapy
Sports injury rehabilitation, post-surgical recovery, manual therapy, and chronic pain management. Dry needling and biokinetics on referral. Most medical aids accepted.
Dis-Chem Hemingways
Full-service pharmacy with dispensary, clinic, beauty products, health supplements, and baby care. Flu vaccinations and health screenings available.
Dis-Chem Vincent Park
Full-service pharmacy with dispensary, clinic, beauty products, health supplements, and baby care. Flu vaccinations and health screenings available.
Down Syndrome Support Group
Support group for families affected by Down syndrome, contactable via WhatsApp. It is a community support group rather than a commercial business.
Dr D.D. Gunase — General Practitioner
General practitioner and family physician in Buffalo Flats, East London. Dr D.D. Gunase (MB ChB, Diploma in Occupational Medicine) offers primary healthcare, chronic-disease management and specialist referrals. Located at Atlantic Circle, Buffalo Flats (Spar main entrance).
Dr S. Kunhiraman Inc — Family Dentist
Family dental practice at 316 Oxford Street, in a converted house with its own off-street parking rather than a medical block. General dentistry for adults and children, with orthodontics and whitening advertised on the practice window. Next door to Oxford Medical Suites, so it sits in the small medical cluster on that stretch of Oxford Street.
Frere Hospital
Tertiary public hospital and major teaching hospital for the Eastern Cape. Full range of services including casualty, surgery, paediatrics, maternity, oncology, and specialist outpatient clinics. Affiliated with Walter Sisulu University.
Health 1st - Nature's Ultimate
Distributor of African Cranberry health products, including tea, juice and concentrate. Products are available through Water Trends SA in Beacon Bay, Monday to Friday 9am-4:30pm.
Hemingways Optometrists
Eye examinations, prescription glasses, contact lenses, and specialised lens fittings. On-site lab for fast turnaround on most prescriptions. Medical aid claims processed directly.
John Forbes Pharmacy
Pharmacy on Oxford Street trading from 8am to 10pm, which makes it the late option in the CBD long after the dispensaries in the malls have shut. Full dispensary alongside the usual front-shop range.
Life St Dominic's Hospital
Private hospital of 211 beds on St Mark's Road in Southernwood, with a 24-hour accident and emergency unit and four intensive care units. Disciplines on site include cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, general surgery, orthopaedics, internal medicine, surgical gastroenterology, dermatology, oncology, pathology and radiology, with a pharmacy and dietetics alongside. A 28-bed Life Rehabilitation unit handles recovery after brain injury and major surgery.
Oxford Medical Suites
Medical rooms at 318 Oxford Street sharing one building: Oxford Pharmacy on the street frontage, and an Eye Care optometrist doing eye health examinations, spectacles and contact lenses. Parking bays are marked out in front, which on that stretch of Oxford Street is worth knowing.
Smart Hearing Acoustician
Hearing acoustician at 50 Jarvis Road in Berea, covering hearing assessment, hearing aid fitting and aftercare. Sits alongside the medical cluster on Jarvis Road, so it pairs with an appointment at St Dominics.
Southernwood Dental Practice
Comprehensive dental care including check-ups, fillings, root canals, teeth whitening, and orthodontics. Accepts most medical aid schemes.
Synergy Biomed Research Institute
Clinical research centre at 280 Oxford Street in the CBD, running trials on behalf of pharmaceutical sponsors including Pfizer, Janssen, GSK, Gilead and Sanofi. Set up to build clinical research capacity in the Eastern Cape and to bring trials to under-resourced and underserved communities rather than concentrating them in the big centres.
Theo Kretzmann Optometrist
Optometry practice at 66A Frere Road in Vincent, calling itself the home of eye care. Eye examinations and prescription lenses, with a particular focus on contact lenses and the options around them. Independent rather than a chain, and on the Frere Road side of Vincent rather than in the shopping centre.
Vincent Medical Centre
GP practice with on-site pathology, basic radiology, and chronic-disease management programmes. Same-day appointments available; walk-ins welcome. Wide medical-aid acceptance.