NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO. 632
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 07 March 2011
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO. 4)
Mr M Waters (DA) to ask the Minister of Health:
How many (a) Community Health Centres (CHCs) and (b) hospitals were
providing choice of termination of pregnancy (CTOP) in each province in (i)
2008, (ii) 2009 and (iii) 2010 and (c) terminations of pregnancy took place
in each of these years?
NW676E
REPLY:
a) and (b) The following table reflects the details in this regard:
Table 1.
|Province |CHCs |Hospitals |
|Eastern Cape |3 |27 |
|Free State |0 |5 |
|Gauteng |12 |25 |
|KwaZulu/Natal |0 |27 |
|Limpopo |10 |31 |
|Mpumalanga |0 |9 |
|North West |10 |14 |
|Northern Cape |0 |5 |
|Western Cape |5 |31 |
(c) The statistics for termination of pregnancy below depicts the
relevant years and provinces
Year |EC |FS |GP |KZN |LIMP |MP |NW |NC |WC | |2008 |11 906 |9 275 |28 995
|5 677 |5 773 |2 970 |6 455 |1 227 |18 390 | |2009 |10 844 |6 641 |32 814
|6 062 |5 024 |2 668 |5 387 |1 266 |13 772 | |2010 |1Â 526 |4 216 |23 200
|917 |1 880 |1 543 |1 543 |946 |2 550 | |TOTAL |24 276 |20 132 |85 009 |12
656 |12 677 |7 181 |13 385 |3 439 |34 712 | |
END.