Pretoria - Three villages in the Ngaka Modiri Molema District will now have access to comprehensive health services at their door step when the North West Health Department hands over three health facilities to the communities.
North West MEC for Health, Dr Magome Masike, will on Friday hand over two-roomed facilities staffed by auxiliary nurses, who will provide basic health promotional and preventative services to communities of Ramabesa, Moshawane and Mayaiyane villages.
"These facilities provide a fixed structure from which mobile health clinics can render a more comprehensive primary health services on scheduled visits, complementing and supporting the mobile clinics," the department explained.
In addition to 83 mobiles currently servicing North West communities not eligible for fully fledged clinics, the department has also added 11 new mobile clinics at a combined value of R2.2 million to its fleet of mobile clinics.
Masike has committed himself to re-engineer the Primary Healthcare (PHC) programme as part of improving the face of health care at local level.
"If the department succeeds with the re-engineering of PHC programme, we are set to solve many challenges, not only at PHC level but health in general," he said.
The handing over of the health posts ceremony will be held in Kraaipan village outside Mafikeng.
