For years, a mother in the rural Eastern Cape had to travel across a river and walk for two hours to get to a clinic. Then, her community teamed up with a nonprofit and the provincial health department to change that. These days, the furthest she has to...
The distances people would have to travel to get to clinics and hospitals is also one of the biggest challenges facing the country’s plannedThe NHI aims to give all South Africans free access to at least basic health services, so that how much someone can pay for healthcare doesn’t determine how much care they can get.
HIV support groups were accommodated at the Health Point, and people knew it was a reliable place to get their HIV treatment. The community’s buy-in provided us with buildings to house the Health Point; and health department resources supplied us with medicine and medical material such as bandages, gloves and needles to use at the facility.
The success of this relationship also lies in consistency. The BI didn’t just promise services to our community; we delivered, and have been doing so for more than 10 years.It also lies in connectedness: The fact that the BI office and 100% of our employees are based in the community we serve, means we can respond to people’s needs quickly.
But we won’t be able to operate as well as we do without our partnerships with the staff at Nkanya Clinic, Jalamba Clinic, Zithulele Hospital or Madwaleni Hospital.The Bulungula Health Point would be far less effective if it didn’t have a dedicated team of 20 community health workers to help, says Yamkela Sapepa, one of the nurses at the facility.
“This two-way aspect that the nomakhayas bring to the health system is what truly improves the community’s quality of life,” says Réjane Woodroffe, the Bulungula Incubator’s co-founder and director. “That, and their trustworthiness, makes these health workers’ value immeasurable, because it literally saves lives.”
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