150 surgeries in honour of Charlotte
Women professionals in the health department have vowed to celebrate this Women’s Month by enhancing the rural health matters outreach programme that is aimed at changing the lives of community members.
POLOKWANE – The Limpopo MEC for health, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, led a team of female surgeons who celebrated National Women’s Month by performing surgical procedures on patients who had been on a waiting list.
Women professionals in the health department have vowed to celebrate this Women’s Month by enhancing the rural health matters outreach programme that is aimed at changing the lives of community members.
It was part of the August celebrations in which the team agreed to honour Charlotte Maxeke.
She was the first black female science graduate in South Africa. She would have been 150 this year. The doctors will perform 150 surgical procedures before the end of the month.
“We are humbled by our female medical and dental specialists who vowed to celebrate August, National Women’s Month, by changing the lives of our most rural and poor communities. “This is the best way we can honour Maxeke, who paved the way for us to graduate equally with degrees that do not reduce us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, but degrees that make us responsible for saving the lives of our people,” said Ramathuba.
