Health Care Programmes

NMC is a private clinic and operates as such. It also provides community health care to the area it serves, such as a tuberculosis programme, an HIV/Aids awareness programme, a family planning clinic, and a nutritional programme.

The tuberculosis programme provides testing facilities, treatment, and arranges home visits to defaulting patients. The HIV/Aids awareness programme provides awareness programmes to secondary school students, private and group counselling and also distributes information. The nutritional programme treats malnourished children, while their caretakers are taught how to grow vegetables in their gardens, and how to improve the home situation in terms of sanitation, hygiene and health.

The Colombine Maternity Clinic, which offers affordable antenatal, obstetrical and postnatal services, was opened in 1999. Two new programmes were launched in 2003: the Ngwenya community dental care programme introduces dental health awareness and dental care to primary school. The second program is our Ndlovu HAART project ( HAART means Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment) which has three aims:

•  to treat HIV/Aids patients with anti-retroviral medicines

•  to set a model of rural HIV/AIDS care in Southern Africa

•  to become a capacity builder for the public sector or other NGO's who want to start HAART projects.

Although these community health care programmes are being delivered to the community through the NMC, they are administered by a separate trust, the Ndlovu Medical Trust (NMT).