The Sediba Hope for Medical Centre announced on Friday morning that it has joined forces with Médecins Sans Frontières (English: Doctors Without Borders) (MSF) to strengthen and expand services at the centre.
“During our discussions on what each organisation was doing we realised we had a lot in common,” said Sediba CEO Vanessa Hector.
Seeing that their objectives were similar with Sediba it became easier to form a partnership, agreed MFS country director Rodd Gerstenhaber.
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“From the beginning seeing that the objectives were so similar and Sediba had established the centre for many years, the collaboration was straight forward.”
Community and social development MMC Sakkie du Plooy said that asylum seekers, homeless people, sex workers and drug users often felt excluded from proper health care and that this initiative would help make them feel more welcome.
“We really appreciate what Sediba and MFS are doing,” said Du Plooy.
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Du Plooy added that the City of Tshwane has an obligation to support initiatives like this “because they do not look for where you come from”.
“I think irrespective of who patients might be, if they are in need of treatment we should help them.”
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