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The Patient Transport project provides safe, quick and reliable transport for medical emergencies to the closest relevant health facilities to people living in Mankosi and surrounding communities. The patient or their family contribute a small fee to help cover costs but also to prevent people from taking advantage of the transport opportunity. This fee constitutes about one-quarter of what public transport would cost. And public transport is not regularly available. This transport is available for any medical emergencies which include women in labour, accidents leading to severe bleeding, stabbings, people having seizures and more. People in the community all know the driver and call him directly when they have an emergency. The driver will then as soon as possible drive to the patients home, collect the patient with one family member and take them to the closest health facility.
Development Challenge
Development Challenge
People living in the rural areas of Eastern Cape face huge challenges when it comes to accessing public health facilities. Due to bad roads, lack of infrastructure and lack of finances, patients often present at a late stage to clinics and hospitals. The villages that use the emergency transport services are far from any health services and hospitals; aside from the patient transport vehicle, there are no other reliable modes of transport to the hospital. Many of these emergencies are also life-threatening, making this project essential to the Mankosi Community. Even if transport is available, covering the cost of transportation is an insurmountable obstacle for many. To hire a car to Canzibe hospital can cost upwards of R500 in 2018, a huge financial burden for many families.
Project Aim
Project Aim
The aim of this project is to provide the people living in Mankosi and surrounding communities affordable access to reliable, quick and safe transport for medical emergencies to the closest relevant health care centres which is most of the time Canzine Hospital.
The outcomes of this project are: -People of Mankosi and surrounding communities who have suffered medical emergencies were able to obtain quick and reliable transport to the closest health facilities. -Less unnecessary deaths because of the lack of medical emergency transport -Less medical complications because of late presentation at health facilities
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Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries
The beneficiaries of this project are the Xhosa people living in Mankosi and surrounding communities in the Nqeleni district of Nyandeni Municipality in rural Eastern Cape. These Xhosa people still live close to the old traditional African lifestyle where they live off the land, build clay huts to live in, plant most of their own food production, farm with livestock and collect water from springs and rivers. The older people still live very much in this way while the younger people are drawn to a more Western lifestyles. The South African Government is doing their best to roll out basic services like water, sanitation, power and roads to these areas but it will still take some time to cover everywhere. Many families are female lead, sometimes with only a grandparent as guardian. The average income in 2018 was roughly R700 per family per month.
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