The Western Cape Department of Health is a department of the Government of the Western Cape, responsible for providing public healthcare to the population of the Western Cape province of South Africa. The political head of the department is the Provincial Minister of Health; as of 2015 this is Nomafrench Mbombo of the Democratic Alliance. The administrative head is the Superintendent-General of Health; as of 2010 this is Professor Craig Househam. In the 2010/11 financial year, the department had 27,993 employees and a budget of R11,962,863,000.