Rotary holds free family health days
The three-day integrated annual programme provides holistic, comprehensive and preventative health programmes for both infectious and non-communicable diseases.
ROTARY Family Health Days (RFHA) will be taking place at various sites across the Ugu District from October 2 to 4.
The free health days, hosted by the Rotary Club of Hibiscus Coast, will be held at Margate and Bhomela clinics as well as Vusushaba Location, (Oshabeni MPCC) and Scottsburgh (Malengeni community hall) between 8am and 4pm.
Get your family, friends and employees health checked free of charge.
The following services will be on offer:
Vital health care monitoring: Blood pressure, blood sugar, BMI measurements, pulse rate and referrals if needed.
Chronic care: Diabetes, hypertension and referrals if needed.
Child health: Deworming medication, malnourishment screening, vitamin A supplement, weighing, ante-natal care and referrals if needed.
Vaccinations – Measles first and second dose and polio.
HIV – Testing, pre-counselling and if positive initiation on the same day.
TB – Symptomatic screening, TB treatment defaulter, referral and sputum collection.
Male medical circumcision – Counseling, procedure, referral and education.
Family planning: Counseling, referral female condoms provided, pap smear and pregnancy testing.
Sexually transmitted infections – screening and referrals, education and free condoms.
According to the organisers, some of these sites might offer additional add-on services such as eye testing, dental care, cervical screening, breast and prostate examinations and more.
“We are appealing to all employers, businesses and private enterprises to encourage staff to come for a free health check-up and to spread the word amongst those communities who do not have private health care,” said coordinator Wilma Lig.
All businesses are challenged to participate in a competition to see who can enter the most employees.
“Not only will you have a healthier staff but you stand to win a prize for the number of employees who attend the health days,” she added.
Judging will take in consideration of how many people you employ and how many participate.
The RFHA is a unique partnership programme with the Department of Health, that is currently in its eighth year of operation. The three-day integrated annual programme provides holistic, comprehensive and preventative health programmes for both infectious and non-communicable diseases.
For more information, contact Wilma Lig at 072 7847429.
HAVE YOUR SAY
Like the South Coast Herald’s Facebook page, follow us on Twitter and Instagram
To receive our FREE email newsletter, click HERE
