A second clinic is desperately needed in Motherwell, says community leader.
The sick, the infirm, the elderly, and patients collecting chronic medication wait all night, outside in the cold, at the clinic in Motherwell NU11, Gqeberha.met people who queue from as early as 1am, hoping to be seen the same day. They burn rubbish from an illegal dump site nearby to keep warm, and they wait, wrapped in blankets, sitting on paint buckets and bricks.
NU29 is a new informal settlement where the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has relocated people from various wetlands across the metro. This has strained the NU11 clinic. “Then we have NU11, NU12 A, B and C and NU30, which all depend on Motherwell NU11 Clinic. So we are talking about thousands of people in this ward who are solely depending on one clinic. They are turned back home daily because the mobile clinic is also not coping with these numbers,” said Dayimani.home pageMadiba Qandana, who was queuing at the clinic, said there ought to at least be a booking system. “I was turned back home three times last month because I had arrived at 6am.
Melumzi Mankayi, who lives across the road, arrived at 2am. He is also a paid placeholder. “I have two children and I am unemployed,” he said. “I made this arrangement with patients who kept on being turned away.”
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