Health - MSF Khayelitsha launches BM Wellness Hub

In today's show, we spoke to Dr John Ashmore - Deputy Project Coordinator for MSF Khayelitsha to tell us more about the BM Wellness Hub in Khayelitsha. This past Friday saw the official launch of the BM Wellness Hub in Khayelitsha which is an innovative cost-saving healthcare model that could contribute towards realising South Africa’s NHI by Doctors Without Borders in partnership with the Treatment Action Campaign. MSF hopes to hand over the Hub a first of two Wellness Hubs to the Western Cape Department of Health after one year which brings a range of user-friendly health services closer to patients’ homes. These include HIV and TB testing, family planning and pregnancy testing, contraception, and screening for STI’s, diabetes and hypertension. It will also be central distribution points for the Community ART Adherence Clubs, which are home-based clubs where stable HIV patients can get their ARVs instead of always having to visit a clinic while the location and extended opening hours from 07:00AM to19:00PM makes health screening and wellness services more accessible to the community.

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