The Executive Mayor of Mogale City, Lynn Pannall, did numerous oversights in the Kromdraai and Magaliesburg areas, one of which was at the Kromdraai Clinic.
The clinic consists of a series of park homes on a cement slab, with outside toilets. The park homes are being used as both waiting and consultation rooms. A small but separate room is being used to store the medicine.
“It was gratifying to see there are outside gardens for which grey water from the clinic is used, but the fact remains that the facility is too small to cater for the large number of people in the area who walk many kilometres to reach this clinic. The current set-up also offers no patient confidentiality,” Pannall said.
However, next to the clinic is a house that became the property of Mogale City in 2011 after the municipal boundaries were re-demarcated. Currently, this house is being used as both a storage area for Expanded Public Works Programme equipment and to host public meetings.
Due to its proximity to the clinic, the house seems to lend itself to function as an extension of the clinic.
“I have therefore approached the Head of the Department of Social Development in Mogale City to investigate the possibility of making the municipal house available to serve as an extension of the clinic where patients can consult with their doctors privately.”
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