MEC visits hospital’s Thuthuzela Care Centre
The objectives of the Thuthuzela Care Centre is to eradicate victimisation of women and children, while improving prosecution, particularly in the areas of sexual offences, maintenance, child justice and domestic violence.
The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development MEC, Super Zuma, recently visited the Port Shepstone Regional Hospital.
The hospital’s public relations officer, Phumza Morai, said the MEC paid a support visit to the hospital’s Thuthuzela Care Centre.
Morai said the visit was done in order to advance the goals of Operation Sukuma Sakhe, which aims to facilitate provision of government services to communities and households as early as possible through collaboration and integration of all interventions of the various government departments.
She added that one of the objectives of the Thuthuzela Care Centre is to eradicate victimisation of women and children, while improving prosecution, particularly in the areas of sexual offences, maintenance, child justice and domestic violence.
“During the MEC’s visit, the hospital’s Mandisa Maqutu gave a PowerPoint presentation on how the Thuthuzela Care Centre functions, the delegation had a fruitful discussion with the hospital management in the boardroom, where they exchanged ideas on how to further improve the quality of service provided by the Thuthuzela Care Centre. The majority of the inputs focused on approaches in which the nursing personnel of Thuthuzela Cere Centre can be provided with forensic training. The delegation also discussed strategies on how to reduce rape and other forms of violence particularly in the areas that were found to have the highest rates within the district,” she said.
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