The mobile clinics will be deployed in townships, informal settlements, and hostels and will provide services such as TB, STI, and diabetes screening, pregnancy testing, PrEP counselling, child immunisation, HPV vaccination, deworming, and HIV testing.
The department spokesperson, Motalatale Modiba, says the mobile health clinics are equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment and will be allocated to all five provincial health districts.
The districts include Johannesburg, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni, West Rand and Sedibeng.
“Taking ownership of the mobile health clinics will ensure that the Gauteng Department of Health can reach more people through its programme to deliver healthcare services to the doorstep of communities,” Modiba said.
“It is a full clinic with a privacy room and a bed inside. It’s just that it is mobile. It has a cold storage to put a particular medicine and we will ensure excellent service.”
Modiba emphasised that no new staff will be hired and that the department will use existing resources.
He said this is due to budget constraints.
“At the moment, we will obviously work with the resources we have. We already have these outreach teams that were already doing this work. What we did not have was mobile clinics; we only had tents.”
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