Adcock Ingram is a pharmaceutical manufacturing company that markets and distributes various healthcare products and supplies to private sector and public sector in the South African market. In alignment with the Companies Act regulations, Adcock Ingram aim to be a responsible corporate citizen, the activities of which are monitored by the Social, Ethics and Transformation Committee.
Adcock Ingram strives to contribute meaningfully to the health and wellbeing of the people by entering into partnerships with beneficiary Not-for-Profit Organisations (NPO) to bring about meaningful and sustainable community development in under-privileged communities.
Traditional male circumcision mortality in the spotlight
Through this programme, boys that have been rescued from illegal traditional initiation schools are approximately 3629, this means that the existence of non-registered and illegal traditional initiation schools, illegal traditional nurses and traditional surgeons is gradually eliminated.
This project has reached community members, traditional initiation practitioners and traditional leaders in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality and OR Tambo District Municipality from the Eastern Cape. These two district municipalities have had high incidences of traditional initiation deaths. The training of traditional practitioners has contributed positively in reducing traditional initiation deaths and related injuries.
Healthcare is a primary focus area
Adcock Ingram partnered with Hlokomela Training Hlokomela, that has reached over 30 000 people by implementing HIV/AIDS educational and treatment programmes. The programmes have reached workers, foreign migrants in the agriculture, nature conservation and tourism sector in Hlokomela, in Limpopo; Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga.
About 1500 HIV patients were put on treatment; the rollout of pre-exposure prophylaxis and the dispensing of more than 6 million condoms is continuing. The programme is aimed at reducing HIV vulnerability through peer education, raising of awareness, prevention and treatment.
The Department of Health and AVONA Health Institute confirmed that Hlokomela and its clinics comply and are suitably adhering to the guidelines of HIV, TB and Non-Communicable Diseases. Research conducted on 10 farms in the Hlokomela area found that there was a serious HIV epidemic in the area and that workers were highly vulnerable to HIV infection.
Quality care at hospitals
Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital, located in Tembisa, Gauteng serves communities that live in Midrand and Diepsloot, including being a referral hospital to 20 clinics in the greater region cover Ekurhuleni, City of Johannesburg and Tshwane municipal areas. The hospital services over 280 000 patients annually, with more than 60 000 going through the casualty unit. About 13 000 surgical out-patients are treated every year. Tembisa hospital Wound care Clinic was an intervention led by SAME Foundation to ensure that the previously neglected space is extended, ensuring that patients that are infected are separated from those that are not infected.
A dedicated area for children was created to reduce cross infection and to ensure that the healing experience for children is not traumatic. This well-equipped Surgical Wound Care Clinic is instrumental in reducing the spread of diseases.
The new Wound Care Clinic alleviates the pressure of over-capacity and delivers exceptional healthcare to the community, together with the Paediatric Children’s Unit and an Adult Unit.
Providing eyecare for the learners
The provision of eye care in the OR Tambo District of the Eastern Cape is a priority, where learners are empowered by restoring their sight and affords these learners a chance to realise their academic and vocational dreams. Grace Vision implemented this programme in the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality and Nyandeni Local Municipality. The programme serves youth, learners and communities in that area.
Giving children the gift of a smile
In December 2017, Adcock Ingram together with Smile Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery from Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and George Regional Hospital hosted a week where Dr. Ben Emmink, Head of Surgery, at George Regional Hospital carried out facial reconstructive surgery for 15 children. Surgeons and medical staff such as Dr. Saleigh Adams, Head of Department of Paediatrics at Red Cross and Dr Ernst Moller, one of the registrars from Cape Town, together with Dr. Corneels Verster conducted the procedures.
As part of this programme a speech therapist from Groote Schuur Hospital and Red Cross conducted lectures and workshops with the children and their parents. Mothers were assisted with a home programme, feeding with a syringe after surgery, follow up appointments post-surgery and referral to a therapist closer to home.
