Since Monday 23 January 2017, hundreds of the Bay's poorest residents have been flocking to Transnet Foundation's Phelophepa II health care train, which has set up its on-board mobile clinic at Swartkops Station. The train - which will be in Port Elizabeth until February 3, after which it will continue on its annual nine-month medical journey across the country - is staffed mainly by final-year or intern-level students from across the country, who work alongside the train's resident … [Read more...] about Pepeta on the Phelophepa
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Get on the Health Train
The fully equipped Phelophepa Health Train, an initiative of the Transnet Foundation, will be stationed at the Swartkops Station until Valentine’s Day (February 14) to provide healthcare services to impoverished residents from Nelson Mandela Bay. The first Phelophepa coach made its way to awaiting patients in rural South Africa in 1994 as a three-carriage eye clinic and the project grew to two custom-build eighteen-carriage trains equipped with modern medical equipment. Known as the miracle … [Read more...] about Get on the Health Train
