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UGU HEALTH DISTRICT

Telephone: +27 (0) 39 688 3000
Fax: +27 (0) 39 682 6296
Email:  khulekani.msomi@kznhealth.gov.za
Postal Address: P/bag X735, Port Shepstone, 4240
Physical Address: 41 Bisset Street Port Shepstone.  Main entrance is on Nelson Mandela drive  Directions

Senior Management Team:
Mr V Chetty : District Manager
Mr CM Nguza : Manager Corporate Services
Ms HN Khumalo : DDM: Primary Health Care
Mrs N Govender: DDM : Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

Vision: Keeping the Healthy in Ugu Healthy and Treating the Sick Holistically

Mission: To develop a sustainable, co-ordinated, integrated and comprehensive health system at all levels of care based on the primary health care approach through the district health system

Core Values

  • Trust built on truth, integrity and reconciliation
  • Open communication
  • Transparency
  • Consultation
  • Commitment to performance
  • Courage to learn
  • Change and innovate

Goals

Ensure accessible, equitable and customer oriented Health services in the whole District and at all tiers of the Government.

Objectives

  • Provide preventive and promotive Health Care to empower customers to take responsibility for their own Health
  •  Promote access of communities to all levels of health care available in the Province through an efficient, effective and acceptable referral pathway
  • Provide adequate resources in order to ensure quality care in the Health Care Facilities at all levels of care
  • Develop capacity/competencies for the prevention, early detection and management communicable emerging and re-emerging diseases in the District.
  • Develop strategies for addressing the effects of poverty on the communities

Stakeholders

  • Municipalities
  • Other Government Departments: Social Welfare & Population Development, Agriculture, Transport, Housing, Education, SAPS, Correctional Services etc
  • Traditional Leaders/Healers
  • Amakhosi’s and Izinduna’s
  • Community at large
  • NGO’s & CBO’s
  • Faith based organization
  • Suppliers
Ugu Health District is found in the lower South Coast of the Province of KZN. The neighbouring Districts are Ethekwini and Sisonke. The estimated population is 760 285. The district provides health service to the population using the Primary Health Care approach through the District Health System and this is done at all levels of care. 

This district comprises of six local municipalities namely: Vulamehlo, Umdoni, Umzumbe, Hibiscus, Izinqoleni and Umzwabantu. Map showing location of Ugu district  There are also three EMRS bases and three Medico-Legal Mortuaries

There are three District Hospitals, one Regional Hospital, one Specialised Hospital, two Community Health Centres; 56 fixed clinics (including three Gateway clinics), and 15 Mobile Clinics with 216 visiting points in 84 wards. There are ten local authority clinics in the District. Additional information about Ugu health district

Hospitals in Ugu District
Dunstan Farrell
G J Crookes
Murchison
Port Shepstone
St Andrews

Clinics in Ugu Health district

Emergency Medical Service
Harding , Park Rynie, Port Shepstone

Medico-Legal Mortuaries
Harding, Park Rynie, Port Shepstone

 

If you have any questions, complaints or compliments regarding Ugu Health District, please contact the Public Relations Officer, Mr Khulekani Msomi

Tel No.: 039 688 3000
Fax No: 039 682 6296
E-mail: khulekani.msomi@kznhealth.gov.za

 

Site last edited on 10 October, 2012 

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