Renewed hope for Naas Clinic
The local clinic staff have been working in appalling conditions and decided to move out of the building and treat their patients in a safer but not better environment under a tree near the building.
NAAS – The local clinic staff have been working in appalling conditions and decided to move out of the building and treat their patients in a safer but not better environment under a tree near the building. This came to light earlier this month in the February 6 edition of Corridor Gazette. Now the nurses are pleased to report that things seem to be improving.
According to them, they can see change which is a good sign. “This clinic has since been closed and we were allocated to work at the nearest ones for two months. They hired an old shopping complex around Naas and they are busy renovating the old one. They said we would work there until they finished the new one which would take one to two years,” explained a nurse who wished to remain anonymous.
Corridor Gazette contacted the spokesman for health and social development Mr Ronnie Masilela, regarding the renovation or construction work. It is still not clear whether it will construct a new building or just repair the roof of the old one. He replied to the publication by email, “Things have changed – we have temporarily relocated the clinic to the old complex structure which is owned by MEGA and managed by Dr Makhanya. Services are being rendered there for the present. The construction of the new clinic is 99 per cent complete and we hope to have it ready and working during the new financial year.”
