Dr Thato Motlhanke is an obstetrician and gynaecologist with rooms inside Mediclinic Bloemfontein. He trained entirely in the Free State, taking his MBChB and his master’s at the University of the Free State before his college fellowship.
Official contact channels
- Rooms: 051 444 3254. Mediclinic prints the number twice on the profile – it is the same number repeated by the page layout, not a second line or a fax.
- Mediclinic emergency number: 084 124, for emergencies only.
The profile also carries an email address on a personal iCloud account. It is not reproduced here. A personal mailbox is not a practice channel – it is not covered when the doctor is on leave, and it is the wrong place to send a scan report or an identity document. Book through the rooms and use whatever address reception gives you.
If you are in labour, bleeding in pregnancy, or your waters have broken, go straight to the maternity unit rather than phoning the rooms. Obstetric emergencies are managed at the hospital, and rooms close outside consulting hours.
What this organisation provides
- Obstetrics – antenatal care, delivery and postnatal care.
- Gynaecology – abnormal or heavy bleeding, fibroids, endometriosis, ovarian cysts, contraception, fertility problems and menopause, together with the associated surgery.
- Qualifications published by Mediclinic: MBChB, University of the Free State, 2005; MMed, University of the Free State, 2014, which the profile abbreviates as L et O; FCOG (SA), Colleges of Medicine, 2015.
- Practises at Mediclinic Bloemfontein.
Choosing an obstetrician is partly a logistical decision. Ask early which hospital he delivers at, who covers when he is unavailable, and whether the practice has a policy on caesarean versus vaginal delivery. Those answers shape the birth more than anything discussed at a first appointment, and they are easier to ask at booking than at 36 weeks.
Address and operating information
- Suite H09, Mediclinic Bloemfontein, corner Kellner Street and Parfitt Avenue, Bloemfontein, 9301. The postal address is the same as the street address.
- The rooms are inside the hospital building, so parking and access follow the hospital rather than a separate medical centre.
- Consulting hours are not published. Obstetricians are frequently called away to deliveries, so appointments can run late and a same-week slot is not always possible.
- HPCSA registration number: MP0655619
- Practice number: 0160000632201, which your medical scheme needs for claims and authorisations.
Support and escalation routes
- Confirm the maternity benefit in writing well before the third trimester. A private birth generates separate accounts from the obstetrician, the hospital, the paediatrician and often an anaesthetist, and schemes fund maternity differently by plan. A caesarean is authorised separately from a vaginal delivery.
- Pregnancy complications are Prescribed Minimum Benefits – ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage requiring treatment, pre-eclampsia and obstructed labour among them – which a scheme must fund even when day-to-day benefits are exhausted, subject to protocols and designated providers.
- Complaints about professional conduct or standard of care go to the Health Professions Council of South Africa on 012 389 9300. Scheme disputes and PMB refusals go to the Council for Medical Schemes after the scheme’s own appeal.
Sources
- Mediclinic Southern Africa doctor directory profile for Dr Thato Motlhanke, mediclinic.co.za, read 5 September 2026 – speciality, rooms and postal address, telephone number, qualifications, HPCSA registration number, practice number and practising hospital.
- HPCSA published switchboard number, hpcsa.co.za.
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