The Road Accident Fund (RAF) brings its Mobile Bus and Driver Wellness programme to Welkom and Virginia.
This programme will be conducted at the taxi ranks around the mentioned areas from Monday (14/08) to Friday (18/08) in an attempt to reduce accidents caused by driver fatigue and other health-related matters.
The RAF’s wellness programme focuses on long distance truck drivers, as well as those who carry a large number of commuters like taxi and bus drivers. They will be offered free health checks.
Statistics show that commercial and public transport drivers pose a greater risk and are prone to mass accidents, which is a liability for the RAF.
To reduce this, the RAF started the wellness programme with the necessary equipment to test vitals like high blood pressure, diabetes, and eyesight to name a few.
The mobile clinic will have a dispensing nurse and an optometrist to prescribe driving glasses on the spot at no cost to the beneficiaries.
This initiative, which has been funded through the RAF’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, is in partnership with a non-governmental organisation, the Health Foundation of South Africa (HFSA).
