The 15-minute procedure that changes everything
HASA has partnered with the Cipla Foundation and the Western Cape Department of Health to establish a nursing surgery at the Esidulelweni Wellness Centre in Khayelitsha. This facility offers affordable healthcare services, including family planning, women’s health, HIV testing, and wound care, with fees ranging from R20 to R300.
Care that reaches further
An estimated 6,000 South African children are born each year with congenital heart defects. Most of them will eventually reach a public hospital waiting list. Some will not survive long enough to get there.
Off the waiting list
In the Western Cape, a prostate cancer patient arrived at Tygerberg Hospital with a diagnosis and no way to pay for treatment. His case was referred to Mediclinic, where a specialist performed a robotic-assisted prostatectomy – a procedure usually accessible only to patients with comprehensive medical aid. He walked out the next day.
Training the specialists South Africa doesn’t have yet
South Africa faces a nursing crisis that gets far less attention than the shortage of doctors. Nurses are at the frontline of every patient interaction – the ones who catch deterioration early, who advocate at the bedside, who hold the clinical environment together.