The ex-employees of Ernest Oppenheimer Hospital, which has since closed down, are still very involved in the Lejweleputswa district and in February held an extensive wellness campaign in Bronville.
“We believe that the best way to express our gratitude is to plough back to the same communities by providing free, professional services and time. The team comprises all previous employees, different healthcare professionals that include, medical doctors, professionals with doctorate degrees, dentists, psychologists, nurses, administrators, and business owners,” says Excellent Radebe, spokesperson for the group.
As a vehicle to drive this mission forward, they established a non-profit organization (NPO) called the Ex-EOH Employees Legacy Foundation (EEELF).
On Saturday, 24 February, a group of volunteers from the EE-ELF, in partnership with the Lejweleputswa District Health Services and the University of Witwatersrand’s (Wits) research institute (RHI) descended on the Bronville Clinic.
They were accompanied by health promotion officer students of the Kgetho Training and Consulting centre.
The team was led by Sr Mantoa Faku of the Bronville Clinic. On the day they did 40 Pap smear examinations, 31 voluntary HIV counselling and testing sessions (two of which were reactive and initiated on ARV’S), three Implanon insertions and two Depo-Provera injections for family planning, four sexually transmitted infection treatments, two intergraded management plans of childhood illnesses, three extended programmes of immunisations, and eight clients who received their chronic medicines.
