Tshwane community pleased with new mobile health services
‘After a long consultation and toyi- toying by the disgruntled community the department decided to provide a mobile clinic,’ said Ms Tosi Chego, an excited community member.
A nurse from the area, who didn’t want to be named, explained that the mobile unit will visit the area twice a month on Fridays, and will provide reproductive health, child health and minor ailments services. She also emphasised that health services offered by non-governmental organisations in the same area should also be utilised, such as home-based care and peer education.
Tsakane Malungane a tuberculosis patient said that before she often defaulted on her treatment because she missed appointments because the closest clinic was very far to walk, and to hire a bakkie to take her would costs R80, which she didn’t always have. ‘Now I am happy to see a mobile unit visiting my area and to receive my medication on my doorstep,’ Malungane said.
Story by Mishack Mahlangu, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Tshwane health district in Gauteng.
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