04/09/2025
Eastern Cape Health to hold a disability medical outreach and engagement session
The Disabled Women South Africa (DWSA) and Disabled Youth South Africa (DYSA), in partnership with the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH) and Disabled People South Africa (DPSA), will host a "Devices of Dignity" campaign to empower women with disabilities.
The outreach will take place on Friday, 5 September 2025 at the Buffalo City Metro Health District offices in East London. The focus area of the engagement will be assistive devices as a site of gender justice, human rights and economic opportunity – not as a charity give away.
Under the theme “Empowering Women with Disabilities”, the campaign will be a commemoration of the Women’s Month to aid women with physical disabilities, deaf and hard of hearing disabilities, blind women and as well as women with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. The programme seeks to highlight the importance of listening circles with women with disabilities who use or need assistive devices.
● Primary health services to be rendered include ; primary health services such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy and audiology.
● The rehabilitation services offered are mobile clinics, cancer screening, breast cancer examination, HIV and TB screening, testing and counseling.
Keynote address will be a panel discussion of disability governing bodies on health equity and access for women with disabilities in rural areas, township, and informal areas.
The campaign’s objectives include the position of the MEC, Ntandokazi Cape’s political legacy as one of dignity, access, and responsive public health service that sparked a systemic shift toward sustainable access to devices for women with disabilities as well as to amplify the voices and leadership of disabled women and girls.
Join the Call to Action. Let's work together to ensure that women with disabilities have access to the assistive devices they need to live with dignity.
