KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, invites the media to be part of the sod-turning event for a health post in Estcourt, Midlands on 12 December 2009.
The construction of the health post is a gesture of goodwill shown by local businessman, Mr Peter-Paul Ngwenya, who has committed himself to working together with government to improve the lives of our people by constructing the health facility at Umhlungwini area to ensure that local people receive quality healthcare. At completion of the construction, he will donate the health facility to the Department of Health.
This is the kind of private and public partnership that the President of the Republic of South Africa, Honourable Jacob Zuma, has always encouraged. In his state of the nation address, President Zuma said: “We are seriously concerned about the deterioration of the quality of health care, aggravated by the steady increase in the burden of disease in the past decade and a half.
“We have set ourselves the goals of reducing inequalities in healthcare provision, to boost human resource capacity, revitalise hospitals and clinics and step up the fight against the scourge of HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and other diseases. We must work together to improve the implementation of the comprehensive plan for the treatment, management and care of HIV and AIDS so as to reduce the rate of new HIV infections by 50 percent by the year 2011. We want to reach 80 percent of those in need of antiretroviral treatment also by 2011”.
Meanwhile, MEC Dhlomo and Khanya Africa will be at Umhlungwini Primary School treating people with various illnesses and refer other cases to hospitals for further treatment. Khanya Africa is a volunteer organisation constituted in the main by doctors, therapists, nurses, optometrists, and other health workers that volunteer their services the communities of this province that need medical treatment.
Date: 12 December 2009
Time: 10h15 to 15h00
Venue: Umhlungwini Primary School
Invitation to year end braai
The Honourable MEC for Health Dr S Dhlomo and the Head of Department, Dr Sibongile Zungu cordially invite journalist to attend the year end braai (sponsored by businessman Mr Peter-Paul Ngwenya)
Date: 12 December 2009
Venue: Mr Ngwenya’s homestead, Escourt around eMtshezi
Time: 17h00 till late
Limited transport is available on a first come first serve basis. It will depart at Playhouse on 12 December 2009 at 07h00. Kindly note that the department will not provide overnight accommodation and on return from Escourt the delivery point will be Playhouse.
For further information and RSVP, kindly contact:
Sibonelo Msomi
Tel: 033 395 2582
Cell: 083 980 7481
Fax: 033 342 0429
E-mail: sibonelo.msomi@kznhealth.gov.za
Des Motha
Cell: 083 295 3901
Issued by: Department of Health, KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government
11 December 2009
