a) Yes, Mpumalanga has post level 1 healthcare facilities as follows:
b) The National Department of Health in collaboration with the Mpumalanga department of health are working on the improvement of some key services as indicated in response(c) below.
The Mpumalanga department of health is only referring level 3 cases to Steve Biko and George Mukhari Academic hospitals for services that the province doesn’t have, for example Cardiology Services and Oncology Radiation Services.
Patients who are going to Mamelodi hospital are going there on their own accord and they are not being referred by the province because those services are available and accessible to the Mpumalanga communities.
c) The Mpumalanga Department of Health has already established the Chemotherapy services at the Witbank and Rob Ferreira hospitals. Patients in need of this service are no longer being taken to Gauteng.
The province is currently processing the establishment of Nephrology Service to have the in-house dialysis services for patients. The province has started with phase 1 planning for the upgrading the Maternity and Mental health Units at the Kwa Mhlanga hospital. The plan is to expand more services until all domains are covered however this depends on the availability of funds.
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