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Worker injuries were recorded separately as IOD (injured on duty), and the senior clerk would process the documents for payment to the WCA.Ĥ. If we received a call for an ambulance, we would require someone to guarantee the payment of R6.00 to the driver, unless it was the employer or a Government department.ģ. We would ascertain the seriousness/ gravity / urgency of anyone and inform the floor nurse, who would then inform the doctor and, if necessary, see to him/ her immediately or not. If they were not working this was waived at our discretion. Information had to be supplied by the patient on being admitted or his companion/ employer/ etc. We had to ascertain who would pay the hospital bill. If on the sugar cane plantations, then their work details but also including their homeland details (there were many Xhosa/Pondo/Pedi migrant labourers on the plantations)Ģ.The river flowing through the area (mfula).If on mission lands or rural then the name of the Chief (Nkosi) and his headman (induna), the district where they lived / paid taxes (ikantool or kaffa upi)? Full name and surname (‘isiBongo or s’duko sakhe’?).Admitting patients in Outpatients Dept by entering admission forms on which numerous questions were asked, such as.

In the Out-Patients Department, there were usually two of us on duty and we were on shifts, alternating (I think monthly, from 6 am to 2 pm and 2 pm to 8p m).ġ. There was a hHospital Secretary in Dave Duror (assisted by a young Hector Corrigall), the Superintendent was a female Dr Gregerson, Head Matron a Mrs Farrer (her daughter also a nurse, Sister Farrer), Mr Duror Snr was the Transport Manager, then there was a Senior Clerk in Goolam Bux.Īmbulance drivers were Morgan, Peter and Myeni.Īmongst the nursing staff were sisters and matrons (I cannot recall exactly which) in Gumbi, Faith Mzoneli, Guma, Ngema, Zuma, etc. My colleagues were Baba Dimba, Burke Mzoneli and Chetty.

In 1967, I was an Out-Patients Department (OPD) Clerk at the Stanger hospital at a princely salary of R42.00 per month, and in my second year of employment there. Scott Couper)įirstly, I am honoured to address you and feel totally humbled when, in hindsight, I realize that not only am I an intricate, integral interwoven particle of an extremely important era of our oral history, but that I had been at private meetings with a great son of our land and father of a nation in Nkosi Albert Luthuli, drove him to his home in Groutville, was the person to take the telephone call about his accident, identify him when he was brought into Stanger Hospital, inform and mobilize the (black) health staff, and then, relay it personally to the world. (Umlilo 8 December 2010 - Address at launch of ‘Bound by Faith’ by Reverend Dr.

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