Nine municipal clinics in Ekurhuleni will be open 24-hours in future to make access to healthcare easier for residents.
“Not everyone has the privilege to take a day off from work to visit a clinic. In broadening access to healthcare services to residents, 29 clinics of the City of Ekurhuleni have extended operating hours from the standard hours,” said Themba Gadebe, spokesperson for the City of Ekurhuleni.
The provision of extended service hours is part of the city’s strategy to reduce the burden of long waiting times at clinics and to improve access to primary healthcare. Five more clinics are earmarked in future to be added to those that operate for 24 hours and 12 hours a day and construction of an additional 10 state-of-the-art healthcare facilities is already in the planning phase.
There are 94 primary healthcare facilities in Ekurhuleni.
“The services offered at the 24-hour and 12-hour facilities include, but are not limited to, child health care services, immunisation, maternal health, management of acute and chronic illnesses, mental health services as well as HIV counselling and testing,” Gadebe added.
These extended hour facilities also render allied health services such as rehabilitation, dental health and maternity services where there is a midwife obstetric unit on site.
In Tembisa Ethafeni Midwife Obstetric Unit will be open 24 hours.
Kempton Park Civic Centre Clinic, as well as Tembisa Health Care Centre Clinic, will now be open on Saturdays too from 8am to 2pm.
