Orchards clinic construction underway
ORANGE GROVE - The City of Johannesburg’s drive to provide healthcare facilities within a 5km radius of its various communities, in line with national government policy, is gaining momentum with the building of a new multimillion rand clinic in Orange Grove.
Construction has already begun at Orchards Clinic. R45 million has been budgeted for the new healthcare centre in a bid to improve the delivery of comprehensive primary health care in Orange Grove, Highlands North, and surrounding areas. The new clinic is being built in line with the National Health Core Standards and the National Health Insurance (NHI) requirements, and it will also accommodate Environmental Health Services
The Orchards Clinic is part of the city council’s Corridors of Freedom projects on the Louis Botha corridors. The multi-storey clinic will house a state of the art 18 consulting room primary health care facility with lifts, water harvesting and conservation tanks, solar power, and back-up generator.
City council spokesperson Nkosinathi Nkabinde told North Eastern Tribune that the clinic will offer a full basket of primary health care services. “The facility will also include office space that will be used by the City’s Environmental Health Directorate,” he said.
“The contractors are already working on site… They have demolished the old structure and busy with excavations and concrete reinforcements are underway.”
The completion of the project is expected in October 2016.
