Category : Health And Welfare

According to the NSPCA “a staggering 70% of pet-owning women, who were victims of abuse, reported that a pet had been threatened, hurt or killed

The Rosebank Sunday Rooftop Market has graciously offered Mould Empower Serve (MES) Impilo Shelter space to sell products from their COVID-19 knitting project on Sunday, 01 November. Founded

While COVID-19 is the world’s most clear and present danger, climate change is a menace that threatens all future generations, according to the head of

Acute malnutrition rates among children under the age of five are the highest ever recorded in parts of Yemen, with more than half a million

Cape Town based biotech company, Biovac is playing a crucial role in supporting the local human vaccine sector. By building the capacity required to manufacture

Kangnas Wind Farm is supporting the Dr Van Niekerk Hospital, in Springbok, through the provision of  personal protective equipment (PPE) and two High Flow Oxygen machines, to assist with COVID- 19  relief as well as after the pandemic.  “Doctors in South Africa and across the world are seeing positive outcomes from using high-flow  nasal oxygen (HFNO), a non-invasive oxygen therapy, instead of mechanical ventilation. They say  they are now using HFNO for many patients who would have been intubated in the early days of the  epidemic, which is why we are funding this equipment,” stated Cheryl Persensie, Economic  Development Manager at Kangnas Wind Farm.  The added advantage to the HFNO is that it can be used not only in a high-care unit but also in  normal and acute beds and will be used for a range of treatments post-COVID.   This equipment, in addition to full PPE gear, which include 180 scrub suits, 4000 disposable aprons  and 1200 examination gloves has been funded by the Wind Farm, to help the Dr Van Niekerk  HospitalinSpringbok,toimprovehealthservicesprovidedtothelocalcommunity. Dr. Grootboom, CEO of Dr Van Niekerk Hospital in Springbok, said “The nurses, doctors and  management of Dr Van Niekerk Hospital would like to express gratitude to Kangnas Wind Farm for  the generous donation, which will strengthen our fight against the scourge of the coronavirus.” 

The University of Oxford together with British drugmaker, AstraZeneca Plc has developed a Covid-19 experimental vaccine which produces an immune response in both old and

London-based Wellcome has announced a new vision and strategy focused on supporting science over the next two decades as it works “to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.”