EYECARE
- Cataract screening and surgery: South African National Council for the Blind (SANCB) partnership
Providing mobile eye care services to rural and peri-urban areas, significantly improving access to essential eye care for underserved populations.
Our support since 2006 has enabled:
- 79 000 patients screened to date
- 4 mobile eye clinics fitted with mobile ophthalmic equipment.
- Essential eye examinations performed, and glasses are also provided.
- Referral for further treatment.
- 24 000 cataract surgeries undertaken with provincial hospitals in rural and peri-urban areas.
2. Pro-bono cataract surgery at Life Healthcare hospitals
Numerous Life Healthcare supporting opthamologists undertake pro bona cataract surgery in our hospitals annually during World Sight Month in October with Life Healthcare providing the hospital equipment, services and care pro-bono.
CLEFT LIP AND PALATE SURGERIES: Operation Smile partnership, April 2025
Supporting the recent surgical programme at Nelson Mandela Children’s hospital where 37 surgeries were performed by a volunteer team led by Operation Smile.
The Operation Smile programme also involves the surgical skills transfer to specialists from Charlotte Maxeke Hospital.
CANCER SCREENING & TESTING
- Mammography, cervical pap smears and PSA (prostate) screening and tests undertaken by PinkDrive using their mobile mammography trucks since 2022.
To date we have sponsored:
- 1 074 mammograms
- 1 367 pap smears
- 1 437 PSA tests
This has seen 417 referrals for further diagnostics and tests.
2. Life Healthcare has just renewed our support to PinkDrive in June 2025 to deliver critical mammography services at Dr George Mukhari Hospital, in support of the Gauteng Department of Health.