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D Mahlangu: Mpumalanga Social Development Prov Budget Vote 2010/11

Institutional organisation and capacity

Honourable Speaker, in my maiden speech last year I outlined key interventions that will take the department forward and deliver better services to our people in the province.

Social welfare services

Honourable Speaker, let me highlight the key programmes within the Department where most of the budget is allocated.

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2009/08/28

D Mahlangu: Mpumalanga Health Prov Budget Vote 2009/10

We need to move away from the hospital based health care service delivery towards more community based health care service delivery.

Human resource management

Honourable Speaker we have already eluded to the fact that health service delivery is a labour intensive operation. Application forms can be accessed in our health facilities.

As part of government strategy to supplement the health professional resource base, various programs for the training of auxiliary health ... [highlighted result]

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2009/08/26

D Mahlangu: Mpumalanga Social Development Prov Budget Vote 2009/10

These services include counselling services and temporary accommodation in shelters.

2.6 Child care and protection services

Honourable speaker, children are the future of any nation. These services include services provided to children who needed assistance with documentation, counselling and provision of life skills to improve their quality of life.

Honourable speaker, the most important intervention of investing in our children is to ensure that that they attend Early ... [highlighted result]

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2010/05/11

D Mahlangu: Mpumalanga Health Prov Budget Vote 2010/11

Our areas of focus include amongst others; communicable disease control, port health services, Emergency Medical Services and malaria control. Mother and child health Honourable Members mother and child health forms one part of our Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets.

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D Mahlangu: Mpumalanga Social Development Prov Budget Vote 2010/11

Awareness to communities will be strengthened as one of the basket of services provided to children who are found to be in need of care through the children s court.Honourable Speaker many children are denied the warmth of family life due to a number of reasons. Social workers will be deployed at public viewing areas, Mbombela Stadium and Fern Fest to render the necessary services.Community developmentYouth developmentHonourable Speaker 2010 has been declared the ... [highlighted result]

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2010/05/11

D Mahlangu: Mpumalanga Health Prov Budget Vote 2010/11

Our areas of focus include amongst others; communicable disease control, port health services, Emergency Medical Services and malaria control. These deaths represent 1.13 percent fatality rate which is above the norm of 0.5 percent.Our investigations revealed that contributing factors were late presentation of patients to health facilities, misdiagnosis by primary health-care facilities and delays in referrals to the next level of care.Mother and child healthHonourable ... [highlighted result]

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2009/12/04

N Mokoena and D Mahlangu meets municipalities under flood threat

The areas of concern are the Inkomati River at the Swaziland Border, Komatipoort, Crocodile River Tenbosch, and Crocodile River at Malelane, Kaapriver Kaapmuiden, Sabie River at Lower Sabie, Steenkool Spruit (Kriel), Olifants River at Witbank dam and Olifants River at Flagboshielo. MEC Mokoena also instructed the Provincial Disaster Management Centre to develop a provincial structure that will plot all stakeholders and get them on standby immediately in case of any possible disaster.As... [highlighted result]

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2009/08/21

D Mahlangu: Strategic planning session

This temptation is brought about by my frustrations with government systems and its employees and how these two interface.I increasingly observe a calculated pattern by civil servants, a pattern that I think negate the founding principle of the government of the people by the people and for the people. But before we do that, we need to develop consensus on what model of primary health care located within the district health management system we want to adopt in our province. A ... [highlighted result]

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2009/07/20

D Mahlangu: Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ABSA) Corporate Social Investment (CSI) workshop

Programme director
The Executive Mayor of Albert Luthuli local municipality, Councillor ES Dlamini
Esteemed leadership of the corporate sector
Representatives from academic sector
Leadership of non-governmental organisations (NGO s), community-based organisations (CBO s)May I, before I start; apologise for the MEC for Health and Social Development MS DG Mahlangu who had to attend to an urgent assignment today. The sprit of volunteerism also assisted a great ... [highlighted result]

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2009/07/05

D Mahlangu: Service Delivery Imbizo

Programme director
The Executive Mayor of Gert Sibande Councillors Gamede
All Councillors present here today
Community leadership
Acting Head of Department Dr Zungu
Management of the department and sister departments
Community of MkhondoCan I before I start pass the apology of MEC for Health and Social Development, MEC Dikeledi Mahlangu who had to attend to other pressing commitments and has since sent me to represent her here?In 1955 a ... [highlighted result]

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2009/07/11

D Mahlangu: Population Day celebrations

Women are still equivalent to poverty, disease, abuse, illiteracy, violence, fear and want.
The lesser paying menial work is equated with women. Child rearing is equated to women.As OR alluded, women have more responsibility than any one else to take charge of their own struggle. Government has even made the quantum leap of creating a women ministry, so that there is added focus on the issues that affect women.Historically we referred t the oppression that women faced as, ... [highlighted result]

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2009/10/04

D Mahlangu to convene governance structures meetings, 5 Oct

The MEC for Health and Social Development Ms Dikeledi Mahlangu will kick start a series of meetings with governance structures aimed at strengthening management of health facilities in the province.These governance structures include clinic committees and hospital boards which have been established in terms of the National Health Act No 61 of 2003. These structures are established to enable community participation in the functioning and management of all health facilities to ensure ... [highlighted result]

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2009/09/07

D Mahlangu: Health and Social Development 100 days

The Department provided funding to 48 services centres which provided services to 8 687 older persons. As part of our efforts to extend access to primary health care, we have extended hours of operation at two clinics at Mogale City, two clinics at Randfontein and two clinics at Westonaria.We have drastically reduced drugs stock out at hospitals and clinics. At this Imbizo nurses recommitted themselves to improving their professional image and improving the standard of care at ... [highlighted result]

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2009/05/25

D Mahlangu outlines priorities

In her first meeting with the management and staff of the Department of Health and Social Department on Monday 25 May 2009, MEC Dikeledi Mahlangu encouraged management and staff of the department to respond without delay to the many service delivery expectations of the people of Mpumalanga. The ruling party has put to the electorate a concrete plan for the next five years and we no excuse but implement it in its letter and spirit. The Minister of Health is on record as saying ... [highlighted result]

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