Sedibeng district staff get their health checked
One of the most demanding forms of work in our society is being a public servants. Often times, the health of government workers is not considered as they have committed most of their time to serving people.
On the Thursday, August 18, Sedibeng District Municipality held one stop wellness services for its employees at Vereeniging Banquet Hall for the entire day.
“The primary aim for the wellness for staff is to encourage employees to know their health status, promote a culture of self-care and importance of a healthy lifestyle. On the other hand, the COVID-19 lockdown season had many economic, social and psychological knock on effects to employees ranging from illness, working from home, loss of colleague, friends or family members, fear of infection, stigma, frustration and boredom,” said the District.
“Employee wellness is the bedrock of employee wellbeing, work performance and the quality of
life of all its employees,” says the Municipal Manager, Motsumi Mathe.
“Wellness Day is one of the programmes to show that Sedibeng District Municipality is a caring employer. I fully support and happy that many of our municipal employees took advantage of it” said Mayor Maloka.
On the day, district employees received an wellness services such as firstly; to file their SARS tax returns, secondly; health screening services namely HIV/AIDS, eye-screening, hearing, cholesterol, blood pressure, dental cleaning, glucose, Body Mass index, thirdly; financial matters such as financial advice, loan applications, life assurance, debt counselling and fourthly to do skipping rope tutorial and or join aerobics session.
“Employee health and wellness strategic framework emphasizes the importance of educating, raising awareness and empower employees around health issues,” Mathe explained.
