CPUT was earlier this year awarded a certificate in recognition of its role in the provision of Municipal Health Services (MHS) during the year 2017-2018 financial year by the South African Local Government Association (SALGA).

The Recognition Certificate was awarded to CPUT during the recent annual MHS National Summit at the OR Tambo International Airport.
The summit was attended by SALGA representatives, local government politicians such as mayors and councillors responsible for MHS as well as senior officials from various municipalities.
Various academics in the Department of Environmental Health present and chair commissions during these summits including lecturer Michael Agenbag who received the certificate on behalf of the university.

Agenbag is also a member of the Western Cape Municipal Health working group whose purpose is to promote and support sustainable and integrated management of Municipal Health Services in the province.

“I have been participating in these annual SALGA Summits since their inception in 2013, this year SALGA requested me to present a paper on the government’s ‘Back-to-Basics’ initiative intended to address basic municipal service challenges in our communities,” says Agenbag.

He adds that the achievement is a good advertisement for the university in the eyes of the industry and prospective students.
He says that the university’s partnership with SALGA has helped students with Work-Integrated Learning placements at municipalities.

Environmental Health Services were renamed MHS in the country in 2004, he adds.

SALGA in partnership with the South African Institute of Environmental Health and the International Federation of Environmental Health hosted the summit.

Written by Kwanele Butana

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CPUT Environmental Health (EH) students have been the first to heed the call from the International Federation of Environmental Health to produce video clips about EH.

Made in conjunction with the Film and Video Department the EH students produced a five-minute insert demystifying the profession and explaining its importance.

The first screening of the clip was done to a high profile audience including representatives from the National Department of Health, Health Professions Council of South Africa, South African Institute of Environmental Health as well as the City of Cape Town and all the District Municipalities in the Western Cape Province.

Vice-Chancellor Dr Prins Nevhutalu reminded the audience of his mission at CPUT which is to produce socially responsible students who care about people and the planet before profit.

“Environmental Health is very important and I am very glad the university offers it because it is an issue of human rights,” he says.

Each year World Environmental Health Day adopts a theme with this years’ being “Addressing Environmental Health Inequalities” and a world-wide call for EH students to produce video clips was issued in an attempt to raise awareness of this critical issue.

Chairperson of the Professional Board for Environmental Health Jerry Chaka commended the students for being the first in South Africa to do so.

“Study further and make us proud. Contribute to the EH body of knowledge.”

Written by Lauren Kansley
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