12 September 2006
Government delivery was celebrated with euphoria, ululation and dancing in
Setlagole Village on Tuesday as North West MEC for Public Works, Honourable MEC
Yawa, handed over a newly build clinic.
The R5,5 million clinic is to benefit over eight thousand rural community
members from Setlagole, Setlhwatlhwe, Thutlwane, Mosega villages and
neighbouring farming communities, some of whom had to walk more than 20
kilometres to access health facilities.
In his handover speech, MEC Yawa said that the delivery of the clinic was a
celebration of the fruits of liberation, the fruits of the age of hope and
endless possibilities. He said a lot has changed since the days of the
apartheid regime whose unequal and fragmented health service could not meet the
needs of the entire nation and that Setlagole was one of the rural areas
neglected by successive apartheid and Bantustan governments.
âThe delivery of quality infrastructure to our people like this clinic is
one of the cornerstones of the Peopleâs Contract that the ANC-led government
has entered with the masses of our people,â said MEC Yawa
MEC Yawa congratulated the woman contractor, Ms Christine Williams of Mapule
Construction for her commitment and dedication to make it as a contractor in
the male and white dominated construction industry. He said that it was the
performance of women contractors like her that gives the Department reason to
consider increasing awarding of contracts to women contractors to 30%. In the
last financial year, the department awarded 19% of its contracts to the
collective value of R95,149 million to thirty-four women contracts
MEC for Health, Honourable Nomonde Rasmeni, in her acceptance speech for the
official opening of the clinic said that credit needed to be given to MEC Yawa
and the Department of Public Works for a forceful pace and dedication at which
they had to complete the clinic.
The clinic consists of one prenatal ward, two delivery rooms, two post natal
wards, maternity rooms, a reception area, three patients consulting rooms, a
dispensary room, counselling room, linen store room, medical waste store,
offices for administration, toilets, three staff houses and is to operate on a
twenty-four hour basis.
Enquire:
Lesiba Moses Kgwele (Departmental spokesperson)
Tel: (018) 387 2447
Cell: 083 629 1987
Issued by: Department of Public Works, North West Provincial
Government
12 September 2006
