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Official Opening of Albow Gardens Community Health Centre

2 December 2009

Health Minister Theuns Botha and Deputy Mayor of City of Cape Town, Ian Neilson officially opened the Albow Gardens Community Heath Centre today.

 

Earlier this year, staff and services were moved to Albow Gardens CHC from Good Hope CHC, previously known as Brooklyn Day Hospital. The community health centre, which is situated in the Communicare building in Ysterplaat for the last 20 years operates from a new purpose-built facility. This was made a combined facility which houses staff from the Western Cape Department of Health and the City of Cape Town.

This was a win-win move for the staff and patients. At the new Albow Gardens CHC, the patients now enjoy a 'one-stop-shop' with all the health services being offered under one roof. This enables patients to enjoy a total comprehensive package of Primary Health Care services being offered under one roof. Services include emergency services, paediatric and adult curative and preventative services, an ARK-supported Anti Retroviral Treatment site, chronic dispensing unit, pharmacy, child health, women's and reproductive health, and TB treatment. Basic antenatal care services were started for the first time in March 2009 in this part of Western sub-district.

The CHC's drainage areas would include Du Noon, Brooklyn, Albow Gardens, Milnerton, Joe Slovo and Table View. It will also service the Western sub-district. It is large but diverse and this particular service covers a combination of working people in local industrial area and residents. It has pockets of great deprivation (Du Noon) close to areas of more economically stable communities.

The move from Good Hope CHC to Albow Gardens CHC offers the following advantages:
- Co-operative governance arrangements between the Provincial Government of the Western Cape and the City of Cape Town;
- Improved access to public transport;
- Modern infrastructure which caters for more parking and an improved patient flow;
- Comprehensive services including an emergency unit, pediatrician, adult curative services, ART, Chronic Dispensing Unit, pharmacy, etc;
- TB detection and treatment is consolidated into a TB unit with excellent infection control;
- Information technology; and
- Planned service expansion in near future.

The reception is more airy, the building more modern and wheelchair friendly. The staff has access to computerised services and more space with much larger preparation and club rooms. Both the trauma unit and the tuberculosis (TB) rooms have been specifically built for those purposes.

 

 

Issued by the Directorate: Communications for the Western Cape Department of Health.

 

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