Clinic has no water to wash newborns
Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe has had no running water for three weeks.
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Community cleans clinic
Community members and patients of Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe spent their 67 minutes on Mandela Day cleaning their clinic, but they don’t only help on one day a year, because they say they value their clinic highly.
Only son lost to botched circumcision
At Ngalavhani village in Vhembe parents are grieving the loss of their only son after complications from the circumcision he got he got during initiation rights in the mountain.
Hospital gets water due to councillor’s quick action
Hardly twenty days after he promised to deliver water to Donald Frazer Hospital, Vhembe Executive Mayor Tshitereke Matibe has lived up to his promise by having a borehole drilled at the hospital.
No home after floods
Vhembe – OurHealth recently spent time with a woman in Mfulwi Village, who has no proper housing after it was destroyed by the floods, but has six children to care for.
Long road to health
Vhembe – Villagers in Gumela, Musunda, Tshitanzhe and Tshikotoni have to literally travel or walk for hours to Matavhela clinic, their closest healthcare facilities.
Drug stock-outs highlighted at Vhembe imbizos
Drug stock-outs at clinics were placed at the forefront of discussions during a number of Imbizos held by the Vhembe District Municipality in three villages last week.
Pupils inhale teargas in classroom
Pupils and teachers from Tshithuthuni Primary School were taken to hospital last week after a pupil let off teargas in the classroom.
Little old man Elvis Living with AIDS
In this feature we journey to the village of Maupye in Limpopo to meet a young boy we first met three years ago when exploring the reality of children orphaned as a result of AIDS.