Residents can volunteer to serve on your clinic committee and hospital board

Your health is your responsibility. You can work with healthcare workers to improve services and well-being of your community by joining the local clinic’s committee, or the hospital’s board. The Western Cape Government Department of Health and Wellness has established several Clinic Committees and Hospital Boards to create a platform for community members to proactively volunteer.

Your health is your responsibility. You can work with healthcare workers to improve services and well-being of your community by joining the local clinic’s committee, or the hospital’s board. The Western Cape Government Department of Health and Wellness has established several Clinic Committees and Hospital Boards to create a platform for community members to proactively volunteer.

Your health is your responsibility. You can work with healthcare workers to improve services and well-being of your community by joining the local clinic’s committee, or the hospital’s board. The Western Cape Government Department of Health and Wellness has established several Clinic Committees and Hospital Boards to create a platform for community members to proactively volunteer.

As a member of a Clinic Committee or Hospital Board, you can:

Request feedback on what is being done to improve the quality of service at the facility
Voice your community’s healthcare needs, concerns and complaints
Make recommendations or give feedback on service delivery gaps you identify
Support the facility by activities to benefit the facility, e.g. fundraising
Mobilise the community to support wellness initiatives
Participate in meetings and consultations

The Chairperson of Idas Valley Clinic Committee says as a community activist, this committee is exactly the platform that locals like him can use to lobby for change. Mr Maghmoed Kara says being on the committee has helped him gain insight into systems like the basis on which Managers can motivate for additional posts/staff at facilities, and he could share the information with the community. One of the concerns the Idas Valley Clinic Committee is addressing, is the danger of people (patients) crossing a busy road to get to the clinic’s gate, and they are working towards putting up a canopy outside the clinic to shelter patients from weather conditions.