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TRANSFORMATION

As a Black empowerment group,  Lukhanyo Clinic accepted the challenge of transforming the practice of psychiatry and mental healthcare by:

• accommodating professionally qualified healthcare workers of the formerly disadvantaged community

• integrating the expertise of all role-players in mental healthcare (psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, and allied health workers) through effective teamwork/networking

• applying the unwritten principles of compassion and empathy in therapy, supported by creative motivational activities.

The Lukhanyo Team dedicates this website to the service of mental health and invites similar community-spirited organisations and mental health practices to submit their links and/or articles/advice to enhance the quality of healthcare provision in our young country and the global community.. .    see papers / links.....

           Web site:          http://www.lukhanyo.co.za 

E-mail: admin@lukhanyo.co.za                                

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

In August 2004 the Wynberg clinic moved to a homely new premises at 54 Broad Road, Wynberg.  Medical practitioners and hospitals are increasing referring their patients to Lukhanyo for specialised, professional  assessments and treatment.

Lukhanyo is currently operating from 3 premises: the headquarters in Wynberg, Lukhanyo Health Centre at 42 Plein Street, Eerste River and at the new Promenade Mall (Mitchell's Plain).  Contact: (021) 7620223/4

The Clinic has become a household name, particularly in the field of forensic psychiatry. Taking up the cudgels for the abused/oppressed in domestic as well as institutionalized violence and serious crime, Dr Ashraf Jedaar, our resident psychiatrist, appears regularly in the courts of law in South Africa as specialist psychiatrist consultant.

 

Democratic Health Practice:  This year Cape Town, South Africa, celebrates the 11th anniversary of the birth of its own mental health facility, Lukhanyo Clinic, which was a direct outflow of the process of democratization and hailed at its launch, as  a  triumph for democratic health practice in South Africa!