Transnet’s Phelophepa Healthcare trains will commence a maintenance programme after servicing over 150 000 patients across the country in the past few months. The two Phelophepa Healthcare trains (I and II) are heading back to Salt River, Cape Town at one of Transnet Engineering’s maintenance site for annual refurbishment programme. The two trains operates simultaneously from January to October offering primary health care to remote communities.
About
Phelophepa (pronounced pay-lo-pe-pa) means "good, clean health". It's the name of two custom-built trains that deliver primary health care to remote areas of South Africa. Brought to life in 1994 as a three-coach eye clinic project, our “Miracle Train” has grown to reach 375;000 people every year. 90;000 patients treated, 68;000 prescriptions written running two trains of hope. In conjunction with our outreach programmes, we have reached over 20 million people since inception.
With about 20 resident staff members using on-board, state-of-the-art medical equipment, the trains serve about 360 000 patients annually, spending 35 weeks each year on the rails, and visiting 70 stations to provideg facilities for health, oral and vision screening programmes and basic health education.
It is this hope that we give to the people, and the smiles we bring out of our patients that has kept Phelophepa on the rails for the past 20 years. Long live Phelophepa!
Services available on the train
Outreach Programmes
Statistics
Outreach Programmes Patients Treated 1994-2014
Patients Treated by Region 1994-2014
791 562
256 812
333 128
322 795
466 887
322 631
382 379
361 663
3 237 857
"Brought help to over 13 million people "
"Travels for 35 weeks of each year, visiting one rural community a week."
"Serving communities for over 20 years."
"Over 100 000 meals are prepared on-board the train for staff and students within 37-week period."
"Travels for 35 weeks covering nearly 30 000km"
"Every week, for 35 weeks a year, over R130 000 is spent in the local village on food purchases."
"The two trains have 18 coaches each, and combined are over 780 metres in length and 1,350 tonnes in weight"
"Over 1.9 million children have been screened and educated with the outreach programmes."
"Three thousand, nine hundred and fifty Edu-Clinic volunteers have been trained within the Home Based Care programme."
History
Brought to life in 1994 as a three-coach eye clinic project, our “Miracle Train”, Phelophepa has a single objective of delivering quality health-care to the less privileged South African
With about 20 resident staff members using on-board state of the art medical equipment, it serves about 360;000 patients annually, spending 35 weeks each year on the rails, and visiting 70 stations providing facilities for health, oral and vision screening programmes and basic health education.
It is this hope that we give to the people, and the smiles we bring out of our patients that has kept Phelophepa on the rails for the past 20 years. Long live Phelophepa!
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