Public flock to hospital to see what it has to offer

The Bertha Gxowa Hospital recently held an open day, to inform the community about the various services available at the hospital.

Bertha Gxowa Hospital is designated as a district hospital serving Ekurhuleni in Gauteng.

Services provided are non-specialist in nature.

The following services are available:

• Accident, emergency and trauma.
• Allied services: audiology and speech therapy; clinical psychology; dietetics; occupational therapy; physiotherapy; social work; radiography (x-ray) services and sonar and pharmaceutical services.

All the allied services operate on an eight-hour basis, except for the pharmacy which operates for 12 hours on week days and four hours on weekends and public holidays.

• Medical-legal including post exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
• General medicine.
• General surgery — excluding orthopaedics.
• General paediatrics including prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/Aids.
• Medical laboratory.
• Reproductive health: obstetrics and gynaecology; ante-natal care; choice termination of pregnancy (CTOP first trimester); cancer screening and male medical circumcision (MMC).
• Counselling, testing, comprehensive care management and treatment of HIV/Aids, STI and TB (CCMT and HCT) and TB focal points.
• Out-patients.
• Theatre.
• Adult high care.