People queueing outside of Ngcobo Community Health Centre in Masonwabe township. The clinic has been without running water for 10 years.
But in doing so, they'd cut her off from the only other person on site — and the person who could help her most: the security guard. While officials point fingers at each other for the lack of piped water in Engcobo, claiming that it's a challenge to supply high-lying areas, the community health centre suffers. she was"ready to face challenges".
in that they provide a bunch of routine and emergency services 24 hours a day, and so can reduce the patient load on, which are geared towards handling child health issues, reproductive health problems, more complex health matters and general surgeries. Like the Ngcobo Community Health Centre, Maclear Hospital faces security problems, with reports of patients who have been raped during hospital admissions. found that many facilities didn't have a reliable supply of electricity and water, many were too small for the number of patients they had to serve, and"some literally falling apart".
Ngcobo's mayor Siyabulela Zangqa says the council is"not a water service provider like the district municipality " and therefore he is not notified about water delivery issues.Yet the district's mayor, Lusanda Sizani, tells Bhekisisa that water infrastructure"is the responsibility of public works " — which, at the lowest level, is a provincial governance structure.