Imtiaz Sooliman – Gift of the Givers gives Bisho doctors a home
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The medical team is working on a COVID-19 project in hospitals, which is worth over three million for the healthcare team. The project is critical for the team, including partnering with corporate parties and providing adequate accommodation for patients. The energy crisis is also a problem, with schools and tourism industry shutting down, and the need for a healthy bank balance is critical. The team is working on a project to save lives and get people back to work, and is involved in a number of projects, including a hospital. The energy crisis is also a big problem, and the need for a way to get back to work is critical.
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Charitable organization, gift of the givers has continued its
rollout of assistance to health facilities in the Eastern Cape. In
the latest move, they've refurbished doctors accommodation
in bisu with a view to keeping medical profession professionals
in that region in tears. Suleiman is with gift of the givers. Dr
Suleman, good evening, and thank you so much for your time. Let's
talk about this accommodation that you have set up for doctors. What
purpose does it mean to play
good evening? Cathy, a compliment of the Year to you, Steven and all
the team at newsroom and all your listener viewers, we've
put up 120 bed facility at Bucha Hospital, a dedicated covid 19
facility. Now remember, the more bridge you put up, the more staff
you require. And when we were speaking to the CEO sister Puma,
she said, in all confidence that she is losing out. And we asked,
why? What happened? She says, because they don't have
respectable accommodation or decent accommodation. A lot of the
new doctors, interns come the service students come there, and
they don't last more than 2448 hours. They move to another
hospital, and at this time, when it's critical that we have the
capacity to deal with so many patients, we need staff. So we
asked, Do you have a building here we could look at and maybe do it
up for them? So we were shown two buildings. We selected the first
one. We look at the second one also. And in December, our teams
came to work because she said the new doctors will be in in January.
And we looked at the building, and through Christmas and New Year, we
worked, and we had it ready for the doctors to move in today. So
it's basically to provide additional staff for the hospital,
and also, not only for covid 19, once covid 19 is gone, for future,
any doctors that come there is accommodation to benefit the
hospital. How much has all of this cost? Dr suluman,
it cost us 3 million for this, this upgrade. And the team before
that, a few weeks before that, had worked in settlers. Again, there
we found two wards which we upgraded, but a high care
facility, 20 point oxygen, high care facility for 20 covid
patients at a cost of 750,000
again, an investment that's of huge value for the medical teams,
the CEOs as well. More importantly, of all the patients
coming to the facility, this is not the only project you're
involved in. There quite a number of them that you've been rolling
out, especially in the Eastern Cape, where does all this money
come from? Because ultimately, you need to be able to have a healthy
bank balance in order to do the kind of work that you're doing. Dr
Suleiman,
well, all thanks to South Africans. You know, money has come
from South Africans. And we must say the corporates have been
really, really good on this, in this, in this project, covid 19,
that the corporates have been absolutely phenomenal. I mean,
never in our history do we get corporates calling us in January,
1, second, third and fourth of January, even in january MONTH as
a whole, already, the calls are pouring in wanting to know, what
else can we do as South Africans? We've all got to stand together.
And corporates have been calling us to say we need to support we've
seen the infrastructure projects. We've seen that the CPA machines
have rolled up. We've seen all the PPE is delivered. We've seen all
the other changes being done and the bids and everything being
provided. And more importantly, our staff and their families are
telling us of the difference it's making on the ground. We need to
support you more. So as a corporates, it's already South
Africans. Everybody doing, whether it's 10 Rand, 5100, everybody who
can afford it or digging into their pocket. Want to make a
difference, because this benefits South Africans as a whole. It's
certainly good to hear that corporates are coming to the part
in the way that they are, because it also suggests that they want
this country to get through this moment, so that, you know, people
can effectively get to get back to work. So when it comes then to
some of the work that you're still going to be rolling out in a
situation like the Eastern Cape, where you've been focusing a large
bulk of your resources over the last couple of months. Does it
mean that it's corporates within the Eastern Cape, or these just
national companies that are saying, here's money, take it to
where it's most desperately needed?
Well, that's a very good question. We expected that corporates of the
Eastern Cape will come on in the bigger way, and we thought that
other corporates from Gauteng and Western Cape will not be
interested. Strangely, it's a corporates in Johannesburg and in
Cape Town that have come forward in large numbers to benefit the
Eastern Cape. And it's no more a territorial thing or a
geographical thing, because we're all affected in some way or other.
Workers come from the Eastern Cape to jobok or Cape Town. People move
to the different provinces from other areas. So equally, disease
is spreading all across the country. There is only one common
objective. You got a good project. You can save lives. We want to do
whatever we can to help. Are you finding that there has been an
improvement? However, when it comes to the situation in the
Eastern Cape, which you've been so vocal about, including just some
of the levels of hunger that that you've seen people experience and
have to go through there,
the hunger hasn't stopped. Even worse, because as the time has
passed, many more people have lost their jobs. The economy is
starting.
Only money is Eastern Cape used to come from people working in Joburg
and Cape Town, and now a lot of them have lost their jobs, and
also the small jobs people are doing. There is no business to
support giving people handouts or a small salary or a small wage or
a tip or something, wait, meet a waiter, and remember, December was
a peak period where we expected, you know, holiday makers to come.
The beach is closed for good reason. You can't blame government
for that, for good reason. And because of that, the tourism
industry virtually collapsed. There's no foreign tourists, like
what you would get in December. Normally, every year, all that
income is gone. So from the food point of view, it's it's critical.
And also the schools are closed. So there's no feeding scheme for
those kids who get food at schools. So the hunger situation
is really, really critical, and the 350 I don't think it's going
to come anymore. There's just not much funding left for that. So
yes, from the from the food point of view, it's an absolute crisis.
From the medical point of view, it looks like the numbers are
starting to stabilize and starting to come down, but there's still a
lot of people dying. That's a big problem, alright? Doctor. Imtia
Suleman of gift of the givers, let's leave it there for tonight.