By REGINALD KANYANE

30 January 2025- In a quest to ensure comprehensive, integrated and sustainable healthcare services, the Northern Cape MEC for Health, Maruping Lekwene, today convened a follow-up stakeholders engagement with the leadership of the !Kheis Local Municipality. This strategic engagement took place in Groblershoop and was attended by among others, municipality’s leadership and senior management of the department.

Lekwene said this collaboration ensure that no health district operates in a silo and therefore, encourages cooperation between other governmental spheres. He further said his department will deliver better value through efficient allocation and optimal utilisation of available resources.

“The department presented an in-depth plan of action that seeks to improve emergency medical services and health care facilities. We are committed to appoint additional staffing at the local health facilities and EMS, as well as placing extra ambulances for quick response time.

“Furthermore, this integrated plan of action includes the development of a plan to assist the department to realise the 24-hour operationalisation of the Globershoop CHC and the assistance of the municipality to resolve some of the challenges or bottlenecks,” he said.

Lekwene added the leadership of the municipality expressed their heartfelt thanks for the strategic engagements and recommitted themselves to fully supporting the department towards strengthening the delivery of health services in the broader !Kheis Local Municipality.

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