The Mobile Bus and Driver Wellness Programme of the Road Accident Fund (RAF) is currently in Welkom and Virginia.
These services will be available at the taxi ranks around the mentioned areas until 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 such as taxis and buses.
Free health checks are being offered.
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 RAF Corporate Social Responsibility, is executed in partnership with a non-governmental organisation, the Health Foundation of South Africa (HFSA).
