SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: CHRIS HANI DISTRICT HOSPITALS RECEIVE ESSENTIALS TO FIGHT COVID19
Care packages handed out at Frontier Hospital
he Checkers group donated 70 Covid-19 care packs to patients at embattled Frontier Hospital on Tuesday.
Checkers Nonesi Mall branch manager Jody Peterson said the store hoped that the initiative would be ongoing.
Peterson said the store also recently visited the Mlungisi police station for a hot chocolate day.
There has been a lot of
“pressure and stress in our health care system and the Checkers group felt we needed to make a small donation,” Peterson said. Also to say thank you for the “hard work that essential workers have been doing, we know they are under a lot of stress and constraints.
We made up Covid-19 care “packs that have toothbrushes, face cloths, toothpaste, soap, hand sanitisers and Powerade.”
TFrontier Hospital acting clinical manager Dr Hubert Mushid said managing the virus was challenging, however, the hospital team were committed to going the extra mile to ensure patients were well cared for. We have to work hand-in
“hand to take good care of this community,” Mushid said. This kind of donation
“means we are not alone in this fight. It means the whole community is committed to fighting Covid-19.
When it comes to
“prevention, whenever we visit shops, we are happy to see that precautionary measures are in place.
As you know, the World
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Health Organisation says the only effective way to fight the Covid-19 pandemic is by stopping the spread.”
Publicity manager Zimkitha Mquteni-Mabanga said the Shoprite group had donated hundreds of care packs to hospitals and Covid-19 quarantine facilities.
She said more than R32m worth of surplus food had been donated to 290 vetted beneficiary organisations since the start of the national lockdown and the Shoprite mobile soup kitchens had delivered 1.3 million meals to
1,865 organisations. Shoprite group CSI manager Lunga Schoeman It is only by
“standing together that we will overcome the challenges presented by this pandemic. We will continue to look after the communities we serve for as long as necessary,” said Lunga Schoeman, CSI manager for the Shoprite group.
Frontier Hospital CEO David Binza said: We are very
“grateful to Shoprite for providing these essential items to our
Covid-19 patients as so many come from vulnerable communities and usually arrive with nothing.”