In addition to the 95 primary healthcare facilities in Ekurhuleni, the metro has an additional 14 mobile clinics that travel the length and breadth of informal settlements to provide much-needed care to residents.
The mobile clinics visit identified informal settlements across the city, operating on weekdays between 9am and 3pm.
Each clinic has a dedicated team consisting of two nurses and a driver who work tirelessly to offer healthcare to residents who do not live within 3km to 5km of an established clinic.
The services rendered include, but are not limited to:
• Minor acute ailments.
• Child healthcare: growth and development monitoring.
• Expanded Programme on Immunization (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, including blood pressure (BP), blood glucose (BG), weight and cholesterol screening.
These are the operating points and time of mobile clinics working in Springs and Kwatsaduza:
Springs Mobile Clinic:
• Never Never – Monday from 9am to 3pm.
• Schoemansplaas/Umbila – Tuesday from 9am to 10.30am.
• Jacobs Farm – Tuesday from 11am to 12.30pm.
• N17 (informal settlement)- Tuesday from 1pm to 3pm.
• Daggafontein – Wednesday from 9am to 3pm.
• Skoonplaas – Thursday from 9am to 12noon.
• Modder East/Eastvale – Thursday from 1pm to 3pm.
• Marikana – Friday from 9am to 3pm.
Kingsway Mobile Clinic:
• Tsakane Extension 19 – Wednesday from 9am to 3pm.
• Geluksdal Extension 10 – Thirsday from 9am to 3pm.
Duduza Mobile Clinic:
• John Dube – Monday from 9am to 3pm.
• Alra Park – Tuesday from 9am to 11am.
• Marievale – Tuesday from 1pm to 3pm.
• John Dube (Vuk’uzenzele) – Wednesday from 9am to 3pm.
• Tsakane Extension 22 – Thursday from 9am to 3pm.
• Masechaba – Friday from 9am to 3pm.
• Geluksdal Extension Three – Friday from 9am to 3pm.
Patients who need services outside the mobile clinic scope or are very sick are referred to the hospital.
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