The Eastern Cape Department of Health on behalf of the Hon MEC Phumulo Masualle would like to congratulate the winners of the Excellence in Health Care Awards held at the OR Tambo Conference Centre, Birchwood Hotel, Boksburg on 25 November 2009.
The Eastern Cape scooped awards in the following categories:
Alfred Nzo Environmental Health Achievement Award was introduced in 2002 in honour of the late Mr Alfred Nzo who was one of the pioneers of environmental health. The award honours those individuals who contribute to the improved quality of life in their communities and who advance environmental health services through innovate ideas.
Lawrence Andile Falati walked away with the award, he works as a Chief Environmental Health Practitioner at the Bufflalo city sub-district, Amathole district municipality. He has for the past two decades served communities with pride and this is reflected in his involvement in establishing the first Informal Trading Forum during his seven year tenure with the Queenstown municipality (now Lukhanji municipality).
The Celilia Makiwane Nurses Recognition Award: The award is named after the first black nurse to be registered as a professional nurse in South Africa. The principle behind the award is to bestow special recognition on the central role played by nurses as the backbone of the health in South Africa whose role is often overlooked and undervalued and the award seeks to correct this tendency by recognising and rewarding excellence.
Winner for the Eastern Cape is Maryna Maria Bakkes a professional nurse at Livingstone hospital. She is a trained orthopaedic nurse and participated in the drafting orthopaedic nursing guidelines. The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is the statutory body responsible for the setting and maintaining appropriate standards of professional education and training for regulating professional practice and conduct.
The Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Development Award went to the Makana sub-district of Grahamstown. The integrated multidisciplinary team of CBR Developmental clinic has reflected outstanding performance in enhancing physically disabled children’s access to quality healthcare in the disadvantaged communities of the Makana sub-district.
Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) Excellence Awards: The HASA Excellence Awards have been in existence for the past ten years and recognise unsolicited service associated with the high standards of healthcare in South Africa’s private hospitals. HASA is honoured to pay tribute to the hospitals that go beyond the line of duty.
The HASA Excellence Awards recognised the Netcare Cuyler Breast Milk Bank in the Eastern Cape. This is a project established in 2008 to help disadvantaged mothers and their babies. The programme aims at preventing necrotising entero colitis, a debilitating illness that often ends in infant mortality.
Issued by: Department of Health, Eastern Cape Provincial Government
7 December 2009
Source: Department of Health, Eastern Cape Provincial Government
(http://www.ecdoh.gov.za/)
