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PANEL BEATER

EVAH MOKWENA

Panel beater

 

#PAINTINGCARS

 

Empumelelweni clinic was build many years ago with an objective of seeing the community of ext. 10, 11 and Empumelelweni getting help from the health care facility.

 

Suddenly panel beater and engineering mechanic started next to the clinic. The paint fumes get inside the clinic through the doors and windows which led to the clinic end up smelling paint.

 

This is happening in the Mpumalanga Province under Emalahleni Local Municipality at Empumelelweni ext 10 health care clinic.

 

It is during the painting of cars when patients are waiting for help as many of them que from as early as 04h00 in the morning till 16h00 evening.

 

The patients and health care workers are the most affected as they come with different diseases and accumulate other from paint fumes.

 

The ward councilor placed the business man next to the clinic without community consultation and thinking about the danger of paint to the sick people’s life.

 

The panel beater to be relocated to place far from the community and health care facilities.

 

The Department of Health together with the low enforcement to enforce the panel beater to move away from the community.

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