Government employees show off their sporting skills at departmental sport day
October month has been declared as Provincial and National Employee Health and Wellness Programmes Sports Day by the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA).
POLOKWANE – On Friday 12 October The Transversal Employee Health and Wellness Programmes(EHWP) on Friday hosted the Provincial Employee Health and Wellness Programmes Sports Day where it encourages employees to get active and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
October month has been declared as Provincial and National Employee Health and Wellness Programmes Sports Day by the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA).
“As Limpopo Province EHWP we continue to participate in this main event since its inception 7 years ago in 2011, where all Provincial Departments compete in different sporting codes as one of the initiatives to promote employee team work, health, wellness, productivity, financial fitness, comprehensive health testing and screenings during the sports day,” Nkadimeng Tlakale told Review.
she added that this is another way of government ensuring that its assets who are Public Servants maintain a healthy life style in order to reduce absenteeism at work due to high volume of sick employees, improve on service delivery, and save high medical costs simply because a healthy employee would not visit the doctor’ rooms regularly.
She thanked the main sponsor Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS), Old Mutual and MTN.
The sport day is held annually and on the day the different departments took part in different sporting activities to give each employee a chance to find the sport which will suite them.
