By OMPHILE MORWAAGAE
12 July 2025- The health of employees remains as important as that of the general population. In fact, it is key for health care givers to always be in more great health in order for them to be in a state of providing greater health to the society, unlike when they and the society are not healthy.
In that state, no one will have a capable chance of offering the other health, as both parties would be incapable of doing such. Therefore, the employee wellness program (EWP) remains a key departmental health dishing out program, which seeks to provide health to the general members of the society through healthy employees.
For, because only a healthy soul can further inject more health in other souls and at the end the nation ends up with healthily affected and infected citizens. The department firmly holds a view that healthy and highly motivated employees have a much better chance of promptly delivering health services not only through precision as per the departmental protocols and procedures but also to actively live a life preached by it to the general communities.
This is the primary reason behind the activation of the EWP towards internal stakeholders of the department. These men and women are more of permanent glue that binds even two foreign objects together in order to marry them to the ideals which ensures a prosperous nation.
The Joe Morolong Memorial Hospital in Vryburg, held its glorious wellness day for its jubilant employees, who actually rebelled and defied the very cold winter morning on 2 July 2025, by actively participating on a more than 5 hour festivities of sporting events. To further empower the financial literacy of the employees, the only regional hospital in the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati collaborated with various financial corporations to give employees financial lectures.
Meanwhile, the acting CEO, Odirile Khonkhobe said that illnesses like depression and others experienced by most employees are as a result of poor financial decisions hence the extension of the invitation to these institutions.
“Our intention as an institution is to attempt to bridge the gap between an employee and an independent ordinary member of the society who is a one human being, hence the deliberate move of going out of our way by bringing organisations that operate outside our mandate closer to us for the sake of our employees,” concluded Khonkhobe.
The Guardian 