Student Affairs: Student Wellness Service
Health services: Services offered
A variety of services are offered for health issues, including:
- Clinical consultations: With either a nurse or medical practitioner in a confidential, holistic primary healthcare setting. All staff members are qualified, accredited medical practitioners and nurses.
- Dispensary: Medication is sold at cost price, on a strictly cash basis. Patients must consult a practitioner before they buy medication. The dispensary does not operate as a pharmacy.
- HIV/AIDS: Pre- and post-test voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) is offered free to all students. Consultations at Student Wellness are one hour long, and clients receive their results immediately after the counselling. Shorter and more accessible VCT is available in the Drop-in Clinic in the Sports Centre on Upper Campus and from the Mobile VCT Van which visits Lower, Middle, Hiddingh and the GSB Campuses weekly during Term. All information is confidential. Management and support of HIV-positive clients is offered at no cost to the student.
- Reproductive health: Sexually transmitted diseases (STI), pregnancy, contraception, Pap smear, emergency contraception (EC)
- Managed medical conditions: asthma, diabetes, hypertension, HIV, tuberculosis
- Extra-time assessments
- Deferred exams/academic appeals
- Accident insurance/sports injury: Limited insurance to cover accidental injury
- Psychological support: Anxiety, depression, relationship and sexuality issues - these are normally referred to our Counselling Services
- Referrals: physiotherapists, dentists, X-rays, tertiary hospitals, private hospitals and specialists
- Travel advice: Malaria prophylaxis and prevention
- Minor surgical procedures: Suturing, incision and drainage of abscesses, removal of splinters
