Making the 67 minutes last forever

SOUTH Rand Hospital’s rehabilitation ward accommodates 15 patients who have recently been diagnosed with a physical disability.

The aim of the rehabilitation programme is to enable the patients to regain as much independence as possible as well as to empower them to reintegrate back into their community.

This is a difficult challenge for many of the patients. Their hospitalisation and loss of independent functioning commonly bring with it feelings of disappointment, grief, low self-esteem and poor coping. The patients enter a world that some may describe as fearful and empty with an inability to give to others as they may have done before.The aim of the annual Mandela Day programme is to enable and empower the patients to give to others in need no matter their own situation. Furthermore, the hospital attempts to enlighten a feeling of hope in the patients when they see that others in the community are either facing challenges similar to or more distressing than their own.

This also assists them in realising on a practical level that they still can be actively involved in their own lives, as well as those of their families and in their communities.

The hospital wants to thank FelTra International Logistics for their amazing donation. The staff at the company kindly engaged in a bake-a-thon held at their offices the day prior to Mandela Day. They baked 80 delicious cupcakes which was later decorated by the patients at South Rand Hospital.

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