The Northfield Methodist Church hosted an inspirational breakfast on February 10.
Special guest Dr Nthabiseng Legoete was set to attend the meeting to talk about her business initiative.
Due to her not being able to attend, Jerry Couchman from the Willow Creek Organisation represented her and played a video of Legoete where she gave a detailed description of what she does.
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Legoete runs a company called Quali Health, which is a business that provides health care to people in impoverished areas.
Starting the business in July 2015, Legoete saw a need to provide healthcare to those who couldn’t afford decent health care.
“The aim is to address the critical needs of those who are in need,” she said.
Legoete has worked in government and the private healthcare sectors.
She said 84 per cent of South Africans are not on medical insurance.
She lists two reasons why people cannot afford proper health care: long queues at government facilities that could result in loss of wages for the day or even losing the job completely.
The second reason is not being able to afford to go to private health care facilities.
“People then resort to not seeking health care and hoping for the best,” she said.
Identifying the need has resulted in Legoete striving to improve what is lacking within the country’s health care system.
Legoete set up her first health care facility in Diepsloot in May 2016; she opened three more in March 2017 in Alexandra, Tembisa and Soweto.
Helping between 500 to 600 patients on a daily basis, she hopes to see to 850 to 900 patients a day in the next four months.
The facility offers services such as antenatal care, family planning and chronic condition management to name a few.
Patients pay a once-off fee that covers the consultation fee, medication and a seven-day check-up.
“Proper health care is not only limited to the haves,” she said.
“The mission is to democratise health care.”
Legoete said she has a “massive” expansion plan in place: she would like to have 30 facilities all over the country by the end of 2018.
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