\u201cDit is presies vier jaar gelede dat ek besluit het om my 33 jaar as verpleegster vaarwel te roep om my gemeenskap beter te dien.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 vertel suster Olivia Pharo nadat haar prim\u00eare gesondheidsorgkliniek sy deure in 2019 geopen het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWoensdag 1 Maart het ons vier jaar deur baie sweet en trane gevier,\u201d vertel di\u00e9 Moeder Theresa van Atlantis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suster Pharo, soos sy alombekend staan, s\u00ea die kliniek bied toegang tot beter gehalte gesondheidsorg vir almal \u2013 veral weens die huidige werkloosheidskrisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het my roeping 33 jaar gelede nagestreef om mense te dien en op 1 Julie 1994 my loopbaan by die Panorama private hospitaal as professionele verpleegster begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was moeilike tye. Poste was gevries en dit was die begin van \u2019n demokratiese proses vir die land. My werk het my destyds met verskillende mense paaie laat kruis en dit het my meer laat besef dat dit \u2019n roeping was, en nie net \u2019n werk nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pharo het in 1995 by die plaaslike hospitaal begin, waar sy in die kraamafdeling, die ongevalleafdeling en algemene sale gewerk het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het oor die jare geleer om almal ongeag status, ras en geloof dieselfde te behandel en implementeer vandag steeds dit waarin ek glo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk was vir 18 jaar \u2019n verpleeg-bestuurder by die hospitaal en het toe besluit om eerder meer te doen, omdat die kanse om verder te groei, al skraler geword het. Ek wou meer vir die plaaslike gemeenskap doen. Ek het my pensioengeld, wat ek vir myself en my familie kon gebruik, gebruik en gedoen wat ek dink die beste vir Atlantis is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het my ideaal verwesenlik en my drome vir beter gesondheidsorg vir almal het \u2019n werklikheid geword, en vandag \u2013 deur storms en moeilike tye \u2013 is ons steeds hier. Ons glo in \u2018menslikheid eerste\u2019, daarom kom pasi\u00ebnte van so ver as Darling en Malmesbury hierheen. Ons sal nooit die deure in iemand, wat gehaltegesondheidsorg nodig het, se gesig toemaak nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pharo bieg finansieel is dit moeilik, maar sy s\u00ea sy weet \u201cdie Here het my op hierdie pad gesit om \u2019n verskil in my gemeenskap te maak\u201d. Daarom sal sy en die span se deure oop wees vir mense wat hulle nodig het. \u201cOns maak \u2019n verskil; ek kan dit sien. Maar die kliniek moet ook oorleef en vir \u2019n tweede jaar kon ek nie \u2019n salaris verdien nie, maar dit motiveer my meer en meer om uit te reik,\u201d vertel sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suster Pharo het, ten spyte van die uitdagings, verlede jaar vyf bejaardes aangeneem wat hul mediese behandeling by haar gratis ontvang het en sy doen vanjaar dieselfde. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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