Bringing health care to the isolated

Practitioners are exchanging their services for a stay at a luxurious game lodge, writes Karishma Dipa

THE remote areas of Limpopo and Mpumalanga might be rich in natural beauty with mountainous and scenic views, but for millions of its residents there is a thin line between life and death.

Much of the rural regions of these provinces don’t have the most basic medical services and the country’s top medical practitioners and specialists are often located in big cities, leaving less densely occupied provinces with little to no health care assistance.

But the Tshemba Foundation has aptly used the serenity of these remote and peaceful locations to persuade international and local health