OKAHANDJA MEDICAL
CENTRE
Okahandja Medical Centre, established in 1994, has grown to become integral to the continued well-being of not just the residents of the town of Okahandja, but also those of the rural surrounding areas. Expanding in unison with the town around it, the Practice steadily took on more members of staff and increased its services, until it eventually outgrew the previous small premises.
At the beginning of 2012, the Practice moved into a brand new complex in the heart of Okahandja, with the Practice and its 4 full-time general practitioners, complemented by a pharmacy, optometrist, physiotherapist, bio-kineticist, X-ray facility, laboratory, and dentist. A visiting psychologist and dietician also share rooms twice a week - enhancing the holistic approach we have in mind. In August 2022 a fifth GP joined the Practice to help with the responsibility of increasing patient numbers.
To compliment the Centre even more, a Satellite Practice was established in June 2014 at the newly built Okahandja Mall – manned by a full-time general practitioner. In 2022 an exciting new Skin Clinic was added to the Mall Practice manned by Dr. Camantha Brinkman. She introduced the Optiphi/Delta Skin Range to enhance her work.
The Slender Wonder Weight Program is an additional service to the community.
In October 2016 a new state-of-the-art Operating Theatre and Day Hospital were added to the Centre – the first of its kind in Okahandja. In April 2020 a new overnight ward section was added with a 24-hour, 365 days service. Visiting specialists from Windhoek, the RSA, and local GPs and dentists perform much-needed cold case operations, while skilled hospital staff cares for ill patients.
2020 was a huge challenge with COVID-19 in our midst, but a plan was made to see potential positive cases outside the building in a temporary structure, to protect whoever works and are treated inside the Centre. Screening staff were added at the entrance of both the Centre and the Mall Practice to differentiate between possible COVID cases and non-COVID patients entering the Centre.
Relieved that all is back to normal, the Practice and Hospital still deliver a much-needed medical care and emergency service to the whole community, including the residents of the newly added Osona Village close to town.