The public clinic in Secunda is listed by the Mpumalanga Department of Health as Secunda LA 8hr Clinic, in the Highveld Ridge area of Govan Mbeki Local Municipality, Gert Sibande District. The numbers below come from the provincial health department own facility list rather than from a directory.
Secunda clinic
- Secunda LA 8hr Clinic: 017 620 6000
The 8hr in the name is the service level, not part of the address. An 8hr clinic runs ordinary weekday hours and is not an after-hours or emergency facility. For anything outside those hours, or for anything serious, the community health centres below and the district hospitals are the right destinations.
Other clinics in Govan Mbeki
If the Secunda line is engaged, or you are closer to another township or town, these are the other facilities the province lists for the same municipality.
- Embalenhle CHC: 017 685 4080
- Lebohang CHC: 017 683 0865
- Evander 8hr Clinic: 017 620 6316
- Kinross LA 8hr Clinic: 017 687 0022
- Langerwacht 8hr Clinic: 017 685 4612
- Trichardt LA 8hr Clinic: 017 638 0600
- Bethal Town 8hr Clinic: 017 620 6240
- Emzinoni 8hr Clinic: 017 624 3098
- SEAD 8hr Clinic: 017 620 6240
Bethal Town and SEAD clinics are published with the same number, and several of the Highveld Ridge clinics sit in the same 017 620 range, so expect a shared switchboard rather than a direct line to the consulting room.
CHC or clinic
- A community health centre, such as Embalenhle or Lebohang, offers a wider service and longer hours than an 8hr clinic
- An 8hr clinic handles primary care: chronic medicine collection, immunisation, family planning, minor ailments and referrals
- A genuine emergency goes to a hospital casualty department or to 10177 for an ambulance, not to a clinic
What to bring
Take your identity document or birth certificate, your clinic card if you have one, and the boxes or labels of every medicine you are currently taking, including anything bought over the counter. If you are collecting a chronic script, bring the previous script and go early: chronic collections are usually handled in a separate queue that closes before the general one.
Complaints and escalation
- Raise a service complaint with the facility manager at the clinic first and ask for it to be recorded in the complaints register
- The Mpumalanga Department of Health publishes a provincial hotline on 0800 111 151 for unresolved complaints
- For serious harm or a complaint about a health professional, the Health Professions Council of South Africa and the Office of Health Standards Compliance are the external routes
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