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| Staff members of Lenasia Health Care Centre with Paul Reddy, Zuned Shaikh and the amazing Dr. Mohammed Faizel Khan who will be treating patients at a maximum fee of R200 which includes basic medication. |
By Priya Ranchod
Needing basic medical help is relatively costly and not everyone can afford even visiting a General Practitioner (GP) doctor who might charge R600 a consultation and sometimes gives a patient a script if he or she does not have the scheduled medication required. Even transport to a hospital where a GP would treat you, comes with long queues and hours of waiting.
Pensioners who basically receive a grant of about R1780 a month barely manage to see a doctor. One day, Zuned Shaikh was stopped and asked where a doctor’s surgery was, and a tearing old woman explained she does not have R600 to spend on a doctor, that is when founders Shaik and Paul Reddy started planning how they could make it easy for pensioners and non-wealthy people who need to see a doctor.
Now, four years of their planning, logistics has come to the doorstep of the Lenasia community. On 4th February 2020 the founding members, staff, volunteers held the opening of Lenasia Health Care, Aap Ki Manzil in the evening where volunteers, Reddy, Shaikh and many others were given a certificate as a token of appreciation. They officially opened their doors to the public on 5th February where people were able to see a doctor at a maximum price of just R200 with medication.
The new Lenasia Health Care Centre is at 74 Gemsbok Street, Ext. 1.
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| Founding members of Lenasia Health Care Zuned Shaikh and Paul Reddy cutting the ribbon at the centre’s opening at 74 Gemsbok Street, Ext. 1 on Tuesday, 4th February 2020. |
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