HEALTH
HEALTH CARE SERVICE DELIVERY
The Eastern Cape Province Department of Health (ECDoH) is mandated to maintain, implement policies and strategies that will enhance the general health, safety and security of communities in the Eastern Cape through delivering on its core competency of providing “health service, in other words, promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services.”[1]
As part of on-going community education and operationalization of the Primary Health Care (PHC), the social building through health promotion and healthy life style living will be aimed so that PHC at community level provide the necessary foundational basis for our future health system.
- The KLCT will have great interest in assessing and where possible and practical, support the role of community health workers to give them more scope and role to play in training and maintaining “Community Health Clinics” and Mobile Clinics in remote and rural areas. This concept was greatly demonstrated by the initial social work training of Professor B.A. Khoapa when he first instituted health program development for the Black Community Programmes (Pty) Ltd in 1973-74. Zanempilo Clinic (Eastern Cape) and Isolempilo (Durban-KZN - though never operational due to BCP banning in 1977) demonstrated how local communities can and should be drivers of their own health, well-being and social development. This forms the pillars of the Trust's social and community development ethos. (Documents published by BCP with the various social/community programs are attached/or linked for reading context.)
-KLCT will look at ways to work in concert with the Department of Health's strategic goals and objectives to develop multi-stakeholder participation processes to stimulate our communities to take greater responsibility for their own health, with the emphasis on prevention of ill-health.
-KLCT aims to identify ways and measures to encourage communities to develop practical projects to address community-wide health care in close association with the ECDoH.
- In addition, KLCT will investigate ways to efficiently implement and improve access to quality Priority Health Programmes, address in some measure HIV and AIDS and TB, diabetes and hypertension (high-high), its impact on our community and form another anchor for our community to improve health by addressing the following:
MOTHER, CHILD AND WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE
The aim will be to "save mothers and save babies" as a focal point to reduce maternal and baby deaths. This will be based on building a strong and functional Basic Antenatal Care (BANC), sustainable PMTCT Program, and a strong campaign to have mothers delivering in safe and secure facilities.
CLINICAL SUPPORT SERVICES AND THE AVAILABILITY OF DRUGS AT HEALTH FACILITIES
Provincially the Department of Health continues to have major challenges in improving access of essential/basic medicines at most of their facilities.
-KLCT will investigate ways to raise funds to get additional safe pharmaceuticals and where possible work in concert with ECDoH to provide equipment for Community Based Clinics and Facilities in our community. One of the challenges to be addressed as part of the project design phase will be to understand ECDoH processes for better management capabilities at their facilities in order to increase drug supply and demand capacity and efficient distribution of drugs and medicine to our facilities.
[1] EC Department of Health website – www.ecdoh.gov.za
The Eastern Cape Province Department of Health (ECDoH) is mandated to maintain, implement policies and strategies that will enhance the general health, safety and security of communities in the Eastern Cape through delivering on its core competency of providing “health service, in other words, promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services.”[1]
As part of on-going community education and operationalization of the Primary Health Care (PHC), the social building through health promotion and healthy life style living will be aimed so that PHC at community level provide the necessary foundational basis for our future health system.
- The KLCT will have great interest in assessing and where possible and practical, support the role of community health workers to give them more scope and role to play in training and maintaining “Community Health Clinics” and Mobile Clinics in remote and rural areas. This concept was greatly demonstrated by the initial social work training of Professor B.A. Khoapa when he first instituted health program development for the Black Community Programmes (Pty) Ltd in 1973-74. Zanempilo Clinic (Eastern Cape) and Isolempilo (Durban-KZN - though never operational due to BCP banning in 1977) demonstrated how local communities can and should be drivers of their own health, well-being and social development. This forms the pillars of the Trust's social and community development ethos. (Documents published by BCP with the various social/community programs are attached/or linked for reading context.)
-KLCT will look at ways to work in concert with the Department of Health's strategic goals and objectives to develop multi-stakeholder participation processes to stimulate our communities to take greater responsibility for their own health, with the emphasis on prevention of ill-health.
-KLCT aims to identify ways and measures to encourage communities to develop practical projects to address community-wide health care in close association with the ECDoH.
- In addition, KLCT will investigate ways to efficiently implement and improve access to quality Priority Health Programmes, address in some measure HIV and AIDS and TB, diabetes and hypertension (high-high), its impact on our community and form another anchor for our community to improve health by addressing the following:
MOTHER, CHILD AND WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE
The aim will be to "save mothers and save babies" as a focal point to reduce maternal and baby deaths. This will be based on building a strong and functional Basic Antenatal Care (BANC), sustainable PMTCT Program, and a strong campaign to have mothers delivering in safe and secure facilities.
CLINICAL SUPPORT SERVICES AND THE AVAILABILITY OF DRUGS AT HEALTH FACILITIES
Provincially the Department of Health continues to have major challenges in improving access of essential/basic medicines at most of their facilities.
-KLCT will investigate ways to raise funds to get additional safe pharmaceuticals and where possible work in concert with ECDoH to provide equipment for Community Based Clinics and Facilities in our community. One of the challenges to be addressed as part of the project design phase will be to understand ECDoH processes for better management capabilities at their facilities in order to increase drug supply and demand capacity and efficient distribution of drugs and medicine to our facilities.
[1] EC Department of Health website – www.ecdoh.gov.za