Department takes health services to the people
The campaign gives impetus to the department’s efforts to ensure integrated mass health screenings
The Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, invites members of the public to attend the Rotary Family Health Days campaign which serves to bring integrated health services closer to communities as part of the Department’s accelerated health programme.
This annual campaign will be rolled out simultaneously over three days in 120 areas across the country between October 3-5.
The campaign gives impetus to the department’s efforts to ensure integrated mass health screenings take place to promote healthy lifestyles. Members of communities attending these events will receive free health services including HIV testing and counselling, TB screening and testing, diabetes screening, hypertension screening, provision of contraceptives, immunisations, hepatitis screening, etc.
Some of these 120 sites will also offer drug and substance abuse counselling, information on SheConquers (a campaign for adolescent girls and young women), measles inoculation, polio drops, voluntary male circumcision services and healthy lifestyle education.
Additional services will include optometry, dentistry, mental health and more.
The campaign takes place in partnership with the Rotarians for Family Health and Aids Prevention (RFHA), Rotarians in South Africa, PEPFAR, SABC Foundation, Caxton, Phila, Gilead Sciences, Alere, YFM, Cape Community Newspapers, University of Johannesburg, Gift of the Givers, Sesego Cares, Paprika and the NCRF.
For more information, visit www.rfhdsouthafrica.org or find your nearest site by calling the NDOH helpline on 0800 012 322.
