Youth encouraged to use local clinic
Each and every room at the clinic has its function and services rendered.
BELLAVISTA Clinic used its open day to launch the Youth Friendly Services (YFS) on June 29.
These are the day-to-day services offered at the clinic and they want to encourage youth to make use of them. Operational manager, Masesi Maswanganyi, told the patients at the clinic that they need to spread the word and inform other people in the community.
“The youth (aged 10 – 24) must feel free to come to us and discuss any health related issues. We promise to be friendly to them. Sometimes they are afraid to speak to their parents; we have trained professional staff to deal with them,” she said.
Each and every room at the clinic has a function and services rendered include HIV/AIDS testing services (HTS) and reproductive health as well as family planning and mother and child health. There is a vital room, acute room, chronic room and data capturing room.
Health promoter, Sibusiso Mrwetjana, is at the clinic most times and is ready to explain any services offered by the clinic to the community. “We are always here to help the community. I can be asked any question. Patients need to work with us all the time and I’m pleading with the community to be presentable when visiting their local clinic,” he said.
Other speakers on the day were Jacqui Monce (professional nurse) who talked about the importance of YFS; Lindiwe Mathebula ( Huggies and Johnson & Johnson representative) who told mothers about the importance of breastfeeding and immunization. She also told the community that they need to go to South Rand hospital to give birth; Vincent Mphaga (environmental health practitioner) mentioned that illegal dumping was a problem in the area and that the community needs to prevent it. Lillian Buckland (clinic health committee chairlady) expressed the vote of thanks.
Patricia Malebane, the secretary of the clinic health committee (CHC), was the programme director for the day.
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