Psych patients get 2016 treat from minister

LIMPOPO – The Minister of Communication, Faith Muthambi handed over gifts to the Evuxakeni Psychiatric Hospital in Giyani on New Year’s Day.

Muthambi also handed over uniforms to the hospital choir and shared a piece of cake with them. The minister adopted the Evuxakeni Psychiatric Hospital in 2014 with the aim of transforming the health facility into a centre of hope.

She told more than 250 patients that very soon they will also enjoy better quality pictures and sound when the country switches off its analog signal. “The implementation of this programme will stimulate economic growth and create employment through the manufacturing and installation of set top boxes. The distribution of these set top boxes will in due course spread throughout the country, and you also stand to benefit from this programme,” she said.

Bua Africa boss, Thulani Ngesi who donated R20 000 towards the year-end celebration, said they are ploughing back to the community of Giyani. Ngesi committed to donate television sets to the hospital.

Founder of Mavu Sport Development, Kenneth Neluvhani said they have adopted Evuxakeni Psychiatric Hospital to which they will donate sports equipment specifically for basketball, volleyball and football, so that these sporting codes can be introduced at the facility.

“We will also bring some volunteers who are well equipped to introduce those sporting codes so that the hospital can sustain those programmes,” Neluvhalani said. In 2014 before Muthambi adopted the hospital, there were terrible cracks in the walls and a shortage of personnel, the kitchen was dilapidated, the sewage plumbing needed to be replaced and there was a shortage of geysers.

Following the minister’s intervention, all these problems have been attended to.