“…Typical primary healthcare services included preventative and curative services such as mother and child health, immunisations, preventative screening, family planning, and treatment of acute and chronic conditions in the community. Patients that could not be treated at the CHCs were referred to the second tier, that is the district hospitals, for more comprehensive care or the third tier, the tertiary hospitals, for specialist care (O'Mahony, Wright, Yogeswaran, & Govere, 2014;Cilliers & Flowerday, 2014). The province had 762 primary health care clinics, 60 community health care centres, 63 district hospitals, 11 regional hospitals, 12 specialised hospitals and one tertiary teaching hospital.…”