P/Bag X1010 Harding 4680
14 Moodie Street Harding
Tel: +27 (0) 39 433 1955
Fax: +27 (0) 39 433 1529
Email: nkosi.zwane@kznhealth.gov.za
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ANDREWS HOSPITAL P/Bag X1010 Harding 4680 14 Moodie Street Harding Tel: +27 (0) 39 433 1955 Fax: +27 (0) 39 433 1529 Email: nkosi.zwane@kznhealth.gov.za |
St Andrews Hospital and Kwabhekilanga signify a true public/private partnership
St Andrews Hospital and Kwabhekilanga a non-governmental organization
focusing on Home Based Care, have spearheaded a partnership as part of ensuring
quality health service and life for all people.
The partnership is part of the hospital’s commitment to give the best of life to
the terminally ill people and it is in line with government’s public/private
partnerships in which non-governmental organizations and private sector work
together with government in a bid to meet some of this country’s service
delivery needs.
Kwabhekilanga is a Non-Governmental Organization established in 1998 and it is a
legally constituted organization in Harding focusing on Home Based Care.
One of its main objectives is to provide health care, spiritual and emotional
support to people with life threatening diseases and their families.
St Andrews hospital has been working together with Kwabhekilanga by organizing
training workshops for volunteers who want to look after the terminally ill. The
Nursing Manager Mrs Sihlali together with HIV/AIDS coordinators often evaluate
nursing care and skills among volunteers during workshops held mainly on
Saturdays at Weza.
The volunteers work tirelessly without any incentive caring for terminally ill
patients in the comfort of their homes with their loved ones around them.
From the 15th to the 26th of November, the hospital has trained these volunteers
as HIV/AIDS councillors. Matron Molefe and Sister CH Manning who are HIV/AIDS
trainers conducted the training. When she was asked about the purpose of this
training, Sister Manning said the main aim was to further empower these
volunteers with counselling skills and HIV information.
“This will help these volunteers with the management of Home Based Care patients
that are referred back home by the hospital,” said Sister Manning.
The workshop was a great success and the volunteers showed a lot of enthusiasm -
according to one of the students this workshop was what they needed because it
gave them more insight on what is HIV/AIDS all about.