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The manager for Corporate Social Responsibility from the Road Accident Fund (RAF), Noluthando Mvabaza, confirmed that they handed over a renovated and fully-equipped physiotherapy ward at Bedford Orthopaedic Hospital in Mthatha, last week.
She said this was part of their giving back to the communities, and their beneficiaries are those communities whose mandate supports the work of RAF.
“It was not the first time we have done something like this, because we are doing it all over in the provinces, but we have provinces that are having a high rate of accidents. Eastern Cape is among the provinces that we are saying have a problem when it comes to accidents,” said Mvabaza.
She said these highest top four Provinces that have a high rate of accidents, are Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal.
According to her, they did this handing over to ensure that accident victims are properly rehabilitated and the focus in the ward is physiotherapy and rehabilitation, driven by the fact that, for example, in the Eastern Cape there is no government rehabilitation centre.
She added that besides handing over this centre they had also hosted a dialogue as the Road Accident Fund at Ntilini locality in Mthatha, where they talked with the community members talking about road safety-related matters.
Senior manager for Road Safety from the RAF, Siphamandla Gumbi, confirmed that they were doing engagements in the areas close to the main roads. He said that in August they visited a number of schools where they educated learners about safety on the roads.
“Now we have hosted dialogues with young people in different areas, including Mthatha, who are not working at the moment and also living next to these roads; they were given an opportunity to come with plans that can be used to decrease accidents on our roads,” said Gumbi.
