According to Mpumalanga provincial department of health:
(a) There are 62 clinics out of 294 clinics in Mpumalanga that do not have visiting doctors because of difficulty to recruit and retain doctors.
(b) Patients who use the specified health facilities and those who needs to be seen by the doctors are referred to the nearest referral hospital, since the Primary Health Care services are nurse managed with doctor support.
(c) The department is contracting GPs to increase support to PHC facilities and is currently in the process of contracting a total of 69 general medical practitioners to increase support to PHC facilities.
(d) It is not possible to provide this date because it is uncertain what the recruitment/contracting process will yield for 62 clinics that do not have visiting doctors.
(e) and (f) PHC Facilities that do not have visiting doctors and the wards in which they are located are in the tables below:
District |
Sub-district |
(e) what are the names of the clinics in Mpumalanga that do not have visiting doctors and |
(f) in which wards are they located? |
Ehlanzeni |
City of Mbombela North |
|
10 |
Ehlanzeni |
City of Mbombela North |
|
34 |
Ehlanzeni |
City of Mbombela North |
|
7 |
Ehlanzeni |
City of Mbombela North |
|
|
Ehlanzeni |
City of Mbombela South |
|
45 |
Ehlanzeni |
City of Mbombela South |
|
30 |
Ehlanzeni |
City of Mbombela South |
|
30A |
Ehlanzeni |
City of Mbombela South |
|
43 |
Ehlanzeni |
City of Mbombela South |
|
30B |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
14 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
11 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
12 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
13 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
13 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
6b |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
12 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
6 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
32 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
26 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
31 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
18 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
15 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
16 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
19 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
10 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
23 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
16 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
29 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
29 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
28 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
19 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
31 |
Ehlanzeni |
Nkomazi |
|
07 |
Ehlanzeni |
Thaba Chweu |
|
11 |
Ehlanzeni |
Thaba Chweu |
|
06 |
Ehlanzeni |
Thaba Chweu |
|
05 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
03 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
01 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
24 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
06 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
06 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
02 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
20 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
32 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
12 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
10 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
37 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
32 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
23 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
23 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
01 |
Ehlanzeni |
Bushbuckridge |
|
38 |
Total PHC facilities not supported by a doctor in Ehlanzeni: 52 |
District |
Sub district |
(e) what are the names of the clinics in Mpumalanga that do not have visiting doctors and |
(f) in which wards are they located? |
Gert Sibande |
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
01 |
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
11 |
|
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
06 |
|
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
06 |
|
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
12 |
|
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
19 |
|
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
10 |
|
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
18 |
|
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
15 |
|
Chief Albert Luthuli |
|
22 |
|
Total PHC facilities not supported by a doctor in Gert Sibande: 10 |
Grand total for Ehlanzeni and Gert Sibande= 62 PHC facilities not supported by the doctors but refers patients to the nearest hospitals.
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