In addition to its 95 primary healthcare facilities, an additional 14 mobile clinics that travel the length and breadth of informal settlements to provide much-needed care to residents, can be boasted about by the metro.
The mobile clinics visit identified informal settlements across Ekurhuleni and operate between 9am and 3pm.
Each clinic has a dedicated team consisting of two nurses and a driver and they work tirelessly to nurse the community that is not within a three to five-kilometre radius of an established clinic.
The services rendered include, but are not limited to:
• Minor acute ailments.
• Child healthcare: growth and development monitoring.
• Expanded programme of immunisation (EPI).
• Integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI).
• Fertility planning services (FPS).
• Cervical cancer (pap-smear) screening.
• HIV testing services.
• Provision of nutritional supplements.
• Other health screening services, such as blood pressure (BP), blood glucose (BG), weight and cholesterol screening.
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Mobile clinics operate at the following points in Germiston:
Rondebult Mobile Clinic:
• Phumula Park: Mondays and Thursdays from 9am to 3pm.
• Buhle Park: Tuesdays from 9am to 3pm.
• Good Hope informal settlement: Wednesdays from 9am to 3pm.
• Graceland: Friday from 9am to 3pm.
Patients who need services outside the mobile clinic’s scope or are very sick are referred to the hospital.
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