| Go-ahead for new health institute
A new multi-million pound centre in Coventry is set to assist regional enterprises that specialise in services and technologies to help those with long-term illnesses and disabilities. Coventry University has received the go-ahead for the £4.5 million Health Design and Technology Institute (HDTI), due to open in 2008. The running of the institute will also be funded by a £3.6 million grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, to be followed by a further £10 million over the next ten years. Construction work on the building, which will be funded by regional development agency Advantage West Midlands, is due to begin on the site in the next four months. The institute's aim is to help SMEs design products and services to improve community healthcare and manage health at home, aided by the latest diagnostic tools, monitoring devices and technology.
Thutha Ma-bucket!
“The smell my brother, the smell. My relatives from Jo'burg can't visit me anymore because they dread staying in shit," says a distraught Linda Dlamini (40).Dlamini lives in a leaky one-roomed shack in Ezenzeleni township, on the outskirts of Warden in the Free State. He has stayed in this shack for more than 10 years, waiting patiently for his RDP house application to be approved. Warden, one of the least developed towns in the Free State, is home to thousands of people who use bucket systems. Last June during an imbizo, President Thabo Mbeki promised a crowd of Ezenzeleni residents that all bucket-system toilets would be substituted with sewerage toilets by end of 2006, a year ahead of the ANC's national schedule for the system to be eradicated by 2007.Ten months after the presidential imbizo thousands of residents continue still use bucket toilets.
Disabled children's center combines with play facility
Caring for the disabled is not child's play but parents are about to get some help with a new program combining skilled nursing care, educational opportunities and creative play for youngsters, all under one roof. United Cerebral Palsy will open Your Child's Place, 289 North Ave., Washington, next month. The $4.6 million, 14,000 square-foot facility is the fourth center of its kind in the state and is modeled after Child's Way in Pittsburgh. .
St. James to get $3G from closed parish
SALEM - St. James Parish will receive $3,100 from the former St. Joseph Parish under a plan by the Archdiocese of Boston to transfer $3 million from the coffers of closed Catholic parishes.
The Rev. John Sheridan, pastor of St. James, said the funds, which are earmarked for handicapped access, are expected to go into a fund to build a new lift for the church steps. Currently, the lift does not work and the church is not accessible to many disabled and elderly people.Read this article in full with a
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