The Association for Voluntary Sterilisation (AVSSA) promotes the benefits of sterilisation among men and women who do not ever want more children, and they offer advice, a counselling service and assistance when booking sterilisations.
The following Community Health Centres and Hospitals in the Western Cape offer sterilisations free of charge on the days specified below:
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE |
FEMALE STERILISATION (Laparoscopic) |
MALE STERILISATION (No-Scalpel Vasectomy) |
Mitchells Plain |
Wednesdays |
Two Thursdays a month |
Retreat |
Tuesdays |
One Monday a month |
Heideveld |
Alternate Fridays |
One Monday a month |
Michael M (Khayelitsha) |
Alternate Fridays |
Currently no service |
Woodstock |
Currently no service |
Last Thursday of the month |
HOSPITAL |
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Eerste River |
First Monday of every month |
Referred to Mitchells Plain |
False Bay |
Thursdays every second month |
Referred to Victoria Hospital |
Helderberg |
Wednesdays |
No specific day |
Somerset |
Tuesdays |
Referred to Woodstock |
Victoria |
Currently no service |
Every second Friday |
Wesfleur |
One Thursday a month |
One Thursday a month |
Karl Bremer |
Thursdays |
Mondays |
TERTIARY HOSPITAL |
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Tygerberg (High & Low risk) |
Wednesdays |
Referred to Karl Bremer |
Groote Schuur (High risk only) |
No specific day |
No specific day |
Read more:
The benefits of sterilisation