According to the North West provincial health department:
(a) Makolokwe Ward 29 in Rustenburg has a mobile service point and staff are not appointed to the service point but are assigned from the Sub-district office to perform the mobile service. The current staff that are on the mobile clinic are: 1 x Professional Nurse; 1 x Enrolled Nursing Assistant and 1 x Driver.
(b) (i) and (ii) Please see response to (a) above. Furthermore, there are no staff members specifically allocated to the mobile services as they are from the fixed clinic the mobile is attached to, hence when the professional nurse for the mobile is not available, one professional nurse from the facility will be rendering mobile services.
(c) The health service point has never operated as a satellite clinic but operated as a mobile point since 2002 as indicated in the response (a) (i) to question 1754 on 12 June 2023. This mobile point was not closed but in pursuit of better conditions (parking space, waiting area for patients) moved to the Community Hall in the same Ward 29. The mobile service is still operational to date.
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