Fourways Equine Clinic

Fourways Equine Clinic aims to offer professional, efficient and compassionate service to our clients and their horses. We are one of the largest equine practices in South Africa, employing leading veterinary professionals who provide first opinion, emergency and referral services.

Fourways Equine Clinic, (as it is now known), was started in 1974 by Doctors George Frost and Crocky du Preez and was initially called Fourways Veterinary Clinic.

It was located in Fourways on the corner of Witkoppen Road (opposite the current Monte Casino). In those days it was little more than an intersection with a garage and a pharmacy. Largely because of its isolation at that time, Fourways Veterinary Clinic was a mixed practice working with all species of animal.

Fourways Equine Clinic started trading in its present form under Drs Angelo Nichas and Alex Niven and in 1990 Dr Crocky du Preez returned from a sojourn at the coast to re-join the practice and Dr Terry Casey joined direct from his national service.

In 1998 the practice moved to its current location in Blue Hills, under Drs Crocky du Preez and Terry Casey, as founder members of Equicare, a novel concept in sharing hospital facilities.

In 2015, Dr Aidan Glynn joined Dr Terry Casey as partner in the practice having returned from working in both the UK and Australia.
Facilities at Fourways Equine Clinic

The Fourways Equine Clinic is the largest single equine clinic in South Africa and as part of the Equine Care Hospital (Equicare) in Midrand, our hospital offers state of the art care to horses in need, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Equicare facility was established in 2000 in order to combine the resources of a number of equine practices and like-minded veterinarians who purchased a suitable property and then designed and built a modern, well-equipped equine hospital facility.

The surgical suite is located adjacent to the hospital premises at the Witbos Veterinary Clinic. Compared to other species, horses carry an increased risk of anaesthetic complications. For this reason, we take every precaution to ensure that each routine surgical case is in prime health prior to anaesthesia. Each case is evaluated comprehensively both by physical examination and blood tests performed in our in-house laboratory. General anaesthesia is performed exclusively by veterinary surgeons (not nurses or technicians).

The FEC operates its own dedicated state of the art in-house laboratory on the hospital premises, which enables us to immediately and appropriately diagnose most disease conditions at any time of day or night. This service is complemented by access to specialised outside laboratories all over the country for testing of unusual samples and infectious diseases.

The hospital has stabling for up to 16 inpatients. All stables are large and well ventilated. Stables for critically ill patients are equipped with 24 hour video surveillance so that they can be monitored at all times. Additional isolation stables, located on remote premises, are used for horses with infectious or suspected infectious diseases in order to prevent any disease transmission risk to other patients. If beneficial to their care, patients can be turned out in paddocks. Inpatients are looked after by our dedicated team of experienced veterinarians, including veterinary specialists, and grooms to provide round the clock care for our inpatients.