Primary healthcare is essential healthcare that is accessible and acceptable to individuals, through full participation and at a cost the community can afford. NWU healthcare centres strive to provide several primary healthcare options.
Payable services may include, but are not necessarily limited to:
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- Assessment and management of minor ailments
- Referral to other healthcare facilities and NWU services
- Emergency care (physical care given to patients)
- Emergency management (the logistics around the available services and the coordination between emergency services and the healthcare centres)
- Patients on chronic treatment at a government facility can get their chronic medicine delivered to the NWU healthcare centres (terms and conditions apply)
- Minor surgical procedures such as applying stitches, tending to cuts, or the insertion and removal of Implanon (contraceptive implant)
- Dispensing of medication prescribed by campus healthcare professionals (no over-the-counter medication sales)
- An range of affordable quick tests such as pregnancy, HIV, blood sugar, etc.
- Daily laboratory service (blood and other specimens may be taken by a nurse during a consultation)
Please contact or visit your healthcare centre to find out more about specific payable services rendered, and about the costs involved for students, staff or visitors.
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Free services may include, but are not necessarily limited to:
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- Reproductive healthcare services (for example contraceptives)
- Health education such as one-on-one talks, radio talks and education with regard to tuberculosis
- Health screening for chronic conditions and chronic disease management (CCMDD programme) (terms and conditions apply)
- Screening for blood pressure
Please contact or visit your healthcare centre to find out more about specific free services rendered.
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