SAEPA AND IKHAMBI CARE JOIN FORCES FOR HEALTH CARE REVOLUTION

The South African Express Parcel Association (SAEPA) has concluded an historical deal with iKhambi Care Health Care Solutions to address the needs of its members, through the building of centres throughout the country providing essential primary and occupational health care services.

SAEPA and iKhambi Care Heath Care Solutions will provide the Wellness Express programme to all members. The programme focuses upon providing basic health care (primary health and occupational health) at a very low monthly fee. Membership is also open to family members at an additional monthly fee per person.

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About iKhambi Care

Both government and business are aware that making health care affordable for low income earners is of paramount importance to the country’s prosperity.  With the threat of HIV/AIDS, rising costs of medicine and lack of skilled personnel, the call to action is urgent and vital.

iKhambi Care has been working with and on these issues for the past 6 years and has come up with a solution to providing affordable and sustainable high quality health care for those people with a low income, through the establishment of profitable, high quality primary health care centres in every high and medium density population throughout Southern Africa. By keeping prices low, providing high quality care, and empowering people in all aspects of their mental and physical health, iKhambi Care envisions a revolution in the health care industry and a positive way forward.

The motto by which iKhambi Care pursues its vision is simple - Doing well by doing good – “The better we are at keeping people healthy, the better our business does. Therefore, all efforts aimed at preventing illness, treating illness effectively and rapidly, and promoting, motivating, and educating health in our target population, serves all stakeholders. We therefore strive to proactively anticipate, identify and prevent disease before it happens, as well as treating disease as effectively as possible.” explains iKhambi Care CEO, Mike van Wyk.

A BRIEF HISTORY

SAFAM started as an occupational health provider for companies in the late nineties. Soon realising this was not a complete solution for their clients they expanded into primary health care, wellness management, VCT and training.

SAFAM renders Occupational Health Care, Primary Health Care, Wellness Management, HIV Management and Training to all business sectors in SA. SAFAM currently renders services to the Hospitality industry, Mining, Security and industrial sector

Through investigating the (Low Income Medical Services) LIMS initiative by Government, SAFAM recognized the need for a low income medical service provision for all members of society. By rendering such services in a primary health care environment, first line diagnoses and treatment of illnesses will be attended to with a positive impact on hospitalization institutions catering for low income groups within SA.

Allowing SAFAM to concentrate on its core business, some of the Directors joined with outside investors and created iKhambi Care Health Care Solutions to pursue their vision.  They then built a clinic on their own premises to prove the sustainability of the Wellness 200 concept. The concept has proven to be successful and the goal is to expand the reach of this concept countrywide. 

iKhambi Care (Pty) Ltd has majority shareholding in two subsidiary companies, namely iKhambi Care Wellness 200 (Pty) Ltd, and iKhambi Care Wellness 4 Sure (Pty) Ltd.

The executive directors of iKhambi Care, iKhambi Care Wellness 200 and iKhambi Care Wellness 4 Sure jointly administer and operate the various functions of the Health Centres, VCT and Occupational Health projects.

The following service level agreements exist between iKhambi Care and its subsidiaries:

  • Clinic operations (iKhambi Care Wellness 200)
  • VCT/Occupational Health (iKhambi Care Wellness 4 Sure)

iKhambi Care also has service agreements with SAFAM (Pty) Ltd, for training services.

The holding company conducts all administration, marketing, payroll, HR, and non-operational functions, whereas the subsidiaries conduct the operational aspects of the services.

iKhambi Care, its directors, management and relevant staff are accredited to the following government departments and professional organizations: