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Intercare branch news: events over the last few months
Annual Bobbies Road Race
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eam Intercare participated in the annual Bobbies Road Race. On Saturday, 14 March, at first light, members of Intercare Wonderboom Dental Department hit the road as participants in the annual Bobbies road race that was hosted at Wonderboom Junction. All finished the race in good time and received a welldeserved medal. Well done! Back row left to right: Annetjie du Raan, Dr Richard Jones, Lizelle Jacobs, Jonathan Gordon. Front row left to right: Magda de Bruto, Maria Ntobela, Dr Colette Leonard
Intercare Tygervalley – Proud Partner of Team Vitality
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ntercare is the proud health care partner of Discovery’s Team Vitality – a running and cycling club. During the Argus Cycle race on 8 March, the physiotherapists of Intercare Medical & Dental Centre Tyger Valley treated Team Vitality cyclists with a post-event massage to relieve sore muscles. Thanks to the excellent arrangements by Anneret Wolfaardt (co-ordinator for the Cape region) and her dedicated team, it was a huge success. Make sure to look out for our health care practitioners at upcoming sporting events.
Fltr: Catherine Moult , Inneke Hoffman, Anneret Wolfaardt (co-ordinator) & Lisma Galloway
Intercare Irene open their hearts to the Mooiplaas Community
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ednesdays are quite challenging, yet fulfilling for doctors Gerhard van Niekerk and Henry du Plooy, both general practitioners at Intercare Irene. This is when they open their hearts to render medical services free of charge to between 30 and 50 children at Ditshego – an outreach for the community of the Mooiplaas informal settlement. The settlement was formed around one of the major household refuse dumping sites in Centurion, and the community has no access to basic services like running water, electricity and sanitation. It is under these circumstances that doctors Van Niekerk and Du Plooy render a weekly medical service to the children of the community. Services include primary health care, immunisations, a baby clinic and the dispensing of medicine – under the licence of the Department of Health’s Community Clinic in Ladium. They are assisted by Andrea de Wet (nursing sister), Elsie Mashaba (care worker, Intercare Irene), Emmah Mthombeni (Ditshego staff member), Ana Labaschagne, Nicky Herbst and Mandy Williams (volunteers). Once every six months, an audiology service is also offered by Hearsay Speech Therapy & Audiology, also situated in the Intercare Irene Medical & Dental Centre. Ditshego was originally founded to provide care for vulnerable, orphaned and abandoned children. From these humble beginnings, Ditshego has since expanded its scope to include the medical clinic, early childhood development, community support through home-based caring and feeding schemes and the re-integration of older children back into the formal school system. It is now a registered non-profit organisation aiming to bring about meaningful change in the lives of the community.