To provide a comprehensive and efficient medical genetic service, ranging from
primary health care in community outreach clinics to highly sophisticated quaternary
services; in the latter context the department functions at the level of a national
resource or asset.
To give emphasis to the genetic problems of pregnant mothers and young children
in line with the Minister of Health's stated policy. The categories of heritable
disorders which cause childhood handicap include blindness, crippling, profound
deafness and mental retardation.
To encourage and facilitate the career and personal development of all staff
members to the upper limits of their aptitudes and capabilities.
To promote the interests of staff members and other persons previously disadvantaged
by virtue of gender and ethnicity.
To provide teaching in medical genetics, which is relevant to the South
African situation, to all groups from community health workers to
postgraduate scientists.
OUR CONTACT DETAILS
Division of Human Genetics
Level 3, Wernher and Beit North
Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town
Observatory, 7925
South Africa
Tel no: 27 21 406-6297
Fax no: 27 21 406-6826
Updated: November 2012