Health & Social Development Services: Mr Corrie Verster, 016 340 4488;
082 376 9203
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHY SERVICES
Environmental health services are services rendered by environmental health
practitioners (MHS)
using various legal prescripts.
Section 32 of the National Health Act, 2003 (Act 61 of 2003) defines Municipal
Health Services in terms of nine key components:
1.
Water Quality Monitoring
This function is concerned with ensuring provision of hygienically safe and
adequate supply of potable water by responding to complaints on
contaminants/impurities; Water is monitored for waterborne diseases such as
cholera, typhoid, dysentery, polio and hepatitis (jaundice) by taking samples
from rivers, streams and sewerage purification plants. Sources of potable
drinking water are monitored monthly (taking of water samples) to ensure
compliance with the set standards.
2.
Food Control
This component concerns matters relating to safety during production,
storage, transportation, processing, retailing of food intended for human
consumption including food handling and processing in establishments. The
Environmental Health Practitioners ensures that food is handled in a hygienic
manner during production, storage, processing, distribution and sales. All food
should be safe, wholesome and fit for human consumption and should
conform to safety and be accurately labelled as required by law.
Food safety management also constitutes the following responsibilities:
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Evaluating food premises and food transportation vehicles, and issuing
certificates of acceptability to compliant premises.
Monitoring compliance with legal requirements, and instituting remedial and
preventative measures where applicable.
Examining, sampling and analysing foodstuffs and examining food labels.
Educating people in both the formal and informal food sectors on food safety.
3.
Waste Management
This relates to matters of handling, storage, transportation, and disposal of
industrial and domestic solid waste, including health care risk waste, hazardous
waste and effluents.
4.
Health Surveillance of Premises
This concerns identification and monitoring of health risks, nuisances and
hazards and instituting remedial actions. It also includes scrutinizing building
plans for compliance. Residential, business and public premises are regularly
monitored to ensure that there are no health nuisances or environmental
health risks. This is done to ensure compliance with the applicable legislation.
5.
Environmental Pollution Control
This relates to matters of prevention of water, air, soil and noise pollution. It
involves the following:
Water quality monitoring
Environmental Health monitors the quality and availability of water intended
for human consumption;
Air quality management
The section strives to reduce air pollution and improve the quality of air by
identifying, investigating and monitoring pollution sources, and instituting
remedial or preventative measures.
Noise Management
Sources of noise are identified, monitored, and subjected to remedial or
preventative measures if necessary.
Community participation and involvement
Environmental Health encourages the participation and involvement of the
community. Communities are empowered through local environmental health
forums. Environmental awareness days are celebrated in partnership with
other stakeholders and the public. Initiatives such as Bontle ke Botho (a
cleaning and greening campaign) are also supported by the section. Clean-up
campaigns are conducted whenever a need is identified. Environmental
health awareness days, such as World No Tobacco Day and World
Environment Day are also celebrated by initiating activities involving the
community.
6.
Surveillance and Prevention of Communicable Diseases (excluding
immunisations)
This is concerned with the surveillance of communicable diseases, conducting
investigations aimed at prevention of disease outbreaks in communities
To prevent the occurrence and/or manifestation of environment-related or
communicable diseases. All complaints related to environmental health are
investigated and reported on. EHPs
obtain samples for analysis and take
remedial and preventative action. The law is enforced by serving compliance
notices or, if necessary, by instituting legal action.
7.
Vector Control
This component involves routine surveillance, identification and eradication of
vector breeding areas. When complaints are reported, an investigation is
done; vectors (rodents or other insects), their habitats or breeding places are
identified; and remedial or preventative measures are requested from people
to be instituted to eradicate the vectors, for instance by spraying, baiting,
fumigation or the application of environmentally friendly pesticides.
8.
Disposal of the Dead
Disposal of the dead involves the monitoring of funeral undertakers,
mortuaries, embalmers, crematoriums, graves and cemeteries for compliance,
and managing, controlling and monitoring exhumations and the reburial or
disposal of human remains. EHPs are responsible for issuing a certificate of
competence if complaint. In order to prevent the occurrence of nuisances at
such premises, regulations for governing the establishment and operation of
mortuaries are also explained to undertakers
9.
Chemical Safety
This component relates to matters of safe handling, use and disposal of
chemicals. Also the identification and control of premises dealing with
manufacturing, transport and storage of chemicals. Chemical safety is
ensured by identifying, monitoring, evaluating and preventing the use of
chemicals that are harmful to human health. The use of chemicals, particularly
pesticides, has increased due to extensive pest control programmes,
household usage and industrial development. The unsafe use and improper
handling and disposal of these chemicals resulted in adverse effects
(including toxicity) on human health.
HEALTH SERVICES
Primary Health Care facilities are clustered in urban and services centres whilst,
rural areas are served through mobile units. All rural clinic mobile points are
rendered by province in accordance with Section 30 of the Health Act No 63 of 1977.
A process to provincialize primary health care (PHC) has effectively started from
April 2007, and it will be completed as soon as all legal and labour relations matters
are concluded.
Clinics in the area
Name of the Clinic
Service Rendered
Rensburg Clinic
Voluntary Counselling and
testing; Prevention of
mother to child
transmission; Well baby
clinic; Family Planning,
chronic illnesses,
hypertension, epilepsy,
asthma, tuberculosis,
HIV& AIDS, minor
ailments, antenatal &
postnatal care.
Ueckerman Street Clinic
Ratanda Extension 7
Jameson Park Clinic
Usizolwethu: Devon/
Impumelelo Clinic
VCT; PMTCT; Well baby
clinic, family planning;
chronic illnesses; School
health, minor ailments;
antenatal & postnatal care.
Voluntary Counselling and
testing; Prevention of
mother to child
transmission; Well baby
clinic; Family Planning,
chronic illnesses,
hypertension, epilepsy,
asthma, tuberculosis,
HIV& AIDS, minor
ailments, antenatal &
postnatal care.
VCT; PMTCT; Well baby
clinic, family planning;
chronic illnesses; School
health, minor ailments;
antenatal & postnatal care.
VCT; PMTCT; Well baby
clinic, family planning;
chronic illnesses; School
health, minor ailments;
antenatal & postnatal care.
Opening and closing time
07:30 – 16:15
Tel. 016 340 4526
07: 30 – 19:00
016 349 1572
07:30 – 16:15
07:30 – 16:15
07:30 – 16:15
Vischkuil Clinic
Extension 23/26 Clinic
Ratanda Clinic
VCT; PMTCT; Well baby
clinic, family planning;
chronic illnesses; School
health, minor ailments;
antenatal & postnatal care.
VCT; PMTCT; Well baby
clinic, family planning;
chronic illnesses; School
health, minor ailments;
antenatal & postnatal care.
Voluntary Counselling and
testing. Prevention of
mother to child
transmission; Well baby
clinic; Family Planning,
chronic illnesses,
hypertension, epilepsy,
asthma, tuberculosis,
HIV& AIDS, minor
ailments, antenatal &
postnatal care; PMTC and
Pap smears
07:30 – 16:15
07:30 – 16:15
07:30 – 19:00
016 343 9398
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT
SERVICES POINTS
DEVON
VISCHKUIL
15:00)
JAMESON PARK
RATANDA
-TUESDAYS (09:00-15:00)
-FIRST AND THIRD WEDNESDAYS (09:00-WEDNESDAYS (09:00-15:00)
-MONDAY TO FRIDAY (7:30 -16:15)
SERVICES RENDERED
INDIGENT REGISTRATION
Definition: Indigent Household - where the owner / registered occupants and other
consumers within the household who do not have the financial means to access
basic municipal services and will only be recognized as an indigent household, when
approved as such by Lesedi Local Municipality.
WHO QUALIFIES
Households qualifying to apply are Pensioners, Disabled, Child and Youth Headed,
Unemployed, Employed and Special pensioners. The total income of such
households should not exceed income equal to 2 times state pensions.
Documents to accompany this application:
ID Documents of applicant and all occupants 18 years and older.
Latest municipal services account.
Copy of SASSA Pension / Grant card. Bank statements of all occupants 18
years and older.
Proof of income if applicable.
If unemployed, affidavit confirming that applicant is unemployed.
3 months bank statement
Social work related services
Community members in all the areas are assisted with different social problems ,
except with cases of children up to the age of 18, who are referred to the Provincial
Social Development.
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One on one interviews
Group work and talks in schools
Community work in a form of programs for Children, Older Persons, Women ,
People with Disabilities and Women Development.
Contact numbers of Social Workers
NOKUZOLA MAGADLA 016 340 4350
MMAPONTSO LATA
016 340 4381
DIMAKATSO MOLOI
016 340 4496