The KwaZulu-Natal health department smashed an unusual record at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital in Durban on Saturday.
It broke the world record for the highest number of pap smears performed in the same place in one day.
More than 2‚000 women pitched up at the hospital to be screened for cervical cancer.
The department said that among the first 200 women who had turned up for the screening‚ at least 10 were found to have symptoms of cervical cancer.
The department beat the Fortis Hospital in Mumbai’s 2012 Guinness World Record of screening 751 women in an eight-hour marathon stretch.
It was the first pap smear record attempt in one place on the same day in South Africa and the African continent.