Health
Question by:
Hon Pat Lekker
Answered by:
Hon Nomafrench Mbombo
Question Number:
4
Question Body:
- Whether her Department funded any non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the 2018/19 financial year; if not, why not; if so, (a) what are the names of the NGOs and (b) what was the purpose of the funding;
- whether her Department has entered into partnerships with any NGOs operating at the Khayelitsha District Hospital; if so, what is the nature of these partnerships?
Answer Body:
- Yes, the Department has been funding NPO’s in the Western Cape since 2004. We have more 100 funded NPOs in the province and would require more detail as each each substructure have a list of NPO’s. NPOs are funded to render various packages of community based services and these are the following:
- Intermediate care services: this in inpatient care for patients who patients who are not acutely ill, but still not ready to go home. The service offers post-acute care, palliative care and rehabilitation and there is 24 of these facilities in the province
- Community mental health facilities: These are facilities that offer care to clients with intellectual disability and some are group homes for psychiatric clients who are not ready to be integrated back into their homes
- Home and Community Based Care Services: These services offer homebased care, promoting a culture of wellness and self- management through support groups, health and educating in the homes, identifying at risk clients and health care defaulters and referring them to the appropriate services, following up on patients referred by the various health facilities (hospitals or clinics) and most important of all is the focus on First Thousand days (FTDs) of the children as the CHWs of the NPOs do their home visits.
- Lay counselling services for HIV/STIs and TB and this is being broadened to include chronic diseases.
- There are five funded NPOs in In Khayelitsha with a combined total of more than 400 community health workers. NPO’s are working in a geographic area and the nature of the partnership with Khayelitsha Hospital is that they follow up referrals received from the hospitals which includes, pregnant women, babies, geriatrics and they provide the service required on the referral form. They link directly with the service managers to attend to clients and provide feedback on these clients.
Date:
Friday, August 2, 2019
