Clinician goes beyond the call of duty   to get involved in the lives of the youth.

Clinician Moichela, a Primary Health Care (PHC) specialist in Soshanguve Block G clinic, helps young boys and girls deal with their problems in the Youth User Friendly Services she initiated.

Pelane Mabula

Besides being a nurse, Clinician Moichela has gone beyond the call of duty to touch the lives of the young patients and her co-workers.

Clinician Moichela, a Primary Health Care specialist at the Soshanguve clinic in Block G believes that she has reduced the delay in patients waiting period, especially that of children by starting a formal emergency unit in 2007.

“We were using the consultation room as our emergency room and that resulted in patient waiting for treatment”, said Moichela.

“I don’t like seeing patients waiting for me to come back from a tea break or lunch. I would rather finish helping my patients before even considering a tea or lunch break to ensure the continuation of good service delivery,” she proudly said.

Sister Matlwa, a co-worker, says Moichela is an individual with a warm heart for children and all her patients. In 2007, she tried to reduce the rate of infant mortality by being part of the International Management of Childhood Illnesses when she held campaigns about measles awareness in Soshanguve to let mothers know about vaccines of such illnesses.

Young boys and girls around the community can make use of the Youth User Friendly Services that was also initiated in 2007, giving those young boys and girls the platform to share different problems that they may be facing and advising them on how to handle those problems.

She also visits other clinics in Soshanguve where they are short staffed.

 “She is a straight talker who has the ability to face any challenge, a hard working person who does not resist change” said Rachel Mashishi, a co-worker who has worked with  Moichela since 2007.

Moichela calls upon all young men and woman to come forward and share their problems with her and only then she may be able to help, or if not she will contact the relevant people who can.