In an effort to address the requirements of primary healthcare services in the area, Boikanyo Solar collaborated with the Northern Cape Department of Health to donate medical equipment to community healthcare facilities in the Siyancuma Municipal area.

The Siyancuma Local Municipality is a local municipality that is part of the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality in the Northern Cape.

As an expansion of its Healthcare Support Programme, the solar plant and the Department of Health funded this assistance.

Community Liaison Officer for Boikanyo Solar, Stephaline Fanie, said: “Our healthcare facilities face many challenges, whilst the demand for healthcare services, especially primary health care, continues to grow. We hope to improve the conditions so that these facilities can better serve the community and foster a healthy environment.”

ECG machines, pediatric saturation meters, a medicine trolley, and adult and pediatric Ambu bags made up the medical supplies that were donated to the clinic.

The equipment will be essential in meeting the requirements of local healthcare facilities and delivering emergency care, treating illnesses, and preventing them.

The manager at Breipaal Clinic, Pinky Tshwenyane, expressed gratitude for the intervention and highlighted that it will ease the burden for patients that have to travel to the local hospital for ECG testing.

“We are grateful for the ECG machine as it eliminates the need for patients to travel far to the local hospital for an ECG test, which is especially beneficial to those without transportation or the financial means to do so as transport to the hospital costs R100.

Some of our patients had to walk to the hospital because sometimes we had problems with the ambulances, so now it is convenient for them,” she said.

Tshwenyane added that with the machines, heart problems may now be diagnosed in the clinic, and the finger saturation device will help with diagnosing oxygen shortages and spotting lung problems before they worsen.

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