With Phumlani Life Community Health Services, you can now book for Health Care Worker at your comfort of your home. Simple fill in the pre-admission form and we will contact you within 12 hours. 

Our Promise To You

 It is embedded in the local context and is essentially designed to foster stable, long-term personal relationships with households which build understanding, empathy and trust. This is pivotal to continuity and person centred care.

Social Change recognises people’s capacity for self-help and involves a comprehensive range of context-sensitive interventions that positively influence environmental and personal factors such as psychosocial abilities, coping abilities, lifestyle issues, behaviour patterns and habits.

It is a collection of activities that support the actions people take to maintain health and wellbeing, prevent illness and accidents, care for minor ailments and long-term conditions, and recover from periods of acute illness and hospitalisation.

These services focus on community education and interventions to reduce risk factors that contribute significantly to the burden of disease, e.g. poor hygiene, childhood illness and developmental delays, unsafe sex, inter-personal violence, use of tobacco, alcohol, drugs and other psychoactive substances, unhealthy diets and a physical inactivity.

Our Community Health-care Workers (CHWs) have an important role to play in empowering communities, and interacting with households on a daily basis.

Social Change’s CHW visits households offering a comprehensive service package to the whole family, including checks on the children in the home, through the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses strategy, TB case finding, sexual and reproductive health advice, and promotion of HCT and general hygiene and safety in the home.

CHWs will support people discharged from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission, offering the opportunity for recovery through a planned progamme of care and support.

This is taking care of patients with a functional impairment and needing basic nursing care at home and providing support to patients to improve adherence to prescribed medication, particularly for HIV and TB but also for diabetes, hypertension and mental illness.

Adherence to treatment results in a better outcome for the patient. It is also more cost effective as it reduces the need for more extensive and expensive interventions.

What have we achieved so far? 

Since Social Change started, about 220 clients have access to community home based care services through Phumlani Life Community Health, Social Change’s initiative to care for the needy in the communities. More 60 of Social Change’s clients are living openly with the HIV+ status, sharing with the bigger group during I ACT support group sessions. Currently, Social Change is operational in Nyandeni sub-district in particular Ngeleni villages. Such villages includes Lujizweni 1, 2 and 3; Qwangweni 1, 2 and 3; Mahotshweni and Malunga. Majority of clients are females more than males and in 2013 alone, about 20 of them are on TB treatment while currently, 4 of them were screened for TB. Other common cases are diabetes 1 and 2, High Blood Pressure and arthritis.

Currently, all our 11 CHW are trained by Zingisa Rehab Centre and are working close with Canzibe Hospital, Lujizweni Clinic and Nolitha Clinic.