Curtis Nkondo School learners undertake educational tour of Alex
ALEXANDRA – Abby is a very similar product to our own and we wanted to have a first-hand experience before we can build ours, says Koketso.
Learners of Curtis Nkondo School Of Specialisation in Emndeni, Soweto, had an educational excursion to River Park Clinic in Alexandra on September 2.
The learners undertook the excursion with the facilitation of ORT SA as part of the Young Entrepreneurship Programme (Yep) to go and observe the practicality of the clinic’s self-service health station called Abby. The learners saw how the station worked and how it had changed the lives of both the community and the healthcare in the township.
The programme has and continues to epitomise the importance of grassroots development among young individuals, and learner and beneficiary of the initiative, Koketso Motsa described their visit to the clinic as an eye-opener.
“The experience has been very enlightening, and it has been honestly great cause we got exposure to different technologies that we didn’t know existed. We, as team CNSOS [Curtis Nkondo School Of Specialisation], want to develop an intelligent health system that is going to be used globally at medical institutions,” said Koketsa.
“It is going to offer vital readings for each and every patient so that we can be able to speed up time and the registration processes, as well as creating new file processes so that patients will be able to spend less time than they are supposed to at the hospitals.
“Now the reason why we came here is because Abby is a very similar product to what we would like to produce as well. We wanted to get the idea of the type of technologies that we should use and how it’s affecting the community as it has already started working.”
She thanked the ORT SA team, the clinic, and last but not least, Abby. “Because of them, we now have a new direction that we are going to take towards the Yep final competition.”
The Yep final is a competition of young grassroots entrepreneurs who have been tasked with developing technological solutions to challenges being faced in health institutions to help ease the interface between patients and health centres.
Josh Lasker, co-founder of Abby Health Solutions said, “It was great to see the kids so excited and so passionate about building something better for the future of South Africa, and I honestly wish them all the best. Let’s hope that these guys win that competition.”
