DUT opens a clinic in Cato Ridge
This project is currently managed by Dr Euvette Taylor from the Health Sciences Executive Dean's Office.
THE Durban University of Technology’s Faculty of Health Sciences Clinic has launched a new clinic wing as part of its community development partnership.
The Faculty of Health Sciences Clinic signed a deal with the local Cato Ridge community leadership and the Department of Corporative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
This project is multi-fold and includes provision of basic primary healthcare and behavioural change communication to the community of the Mkhizwana village and surrounding areas of the greater Cato Ridge Area.
This project is currently managed by Dr Euvette Taylor from the Health Sciences Executive Dean’s Office. Dr Taylor is very enthusiastic about this project.
“Cato Ridge is very rural community and needs these services as offered by the health faculty. This project will not only benefit the community and counts towards the development of sound and holistic graduates,” said Taylor.
She added that DUT prides itself when it comes to community engagement, which emanates from the universities strategic plan and this is also an opportunity for our students to give back the communities that they come from. Although we are excited about the project as a university, we also understand there is a need for continued innovation to address current and future unmet medical and healthcare needs.
“This requires new thinking and a comprehensive approach; all stakeholders of a healthcare system have to work together in seeking sustainable solutions that promote universal access to care,” she said.With this in mind, they pleaded with government departments and owners of private enterprises to lend a helping hand to this project.
Due to lack of resources, this clinic operates on Wednesdays from 8:30am to 2pm and dozens of patients are seen and some are sadly turned away due to lack of time and capacity.
