Independent service provider Kriel Occupational & Wellness Centre, a 100% black, female-owned business, was established in 2008 to bridge the gap in the occupational health sector identified by director Dr Patience Lindi Mokwena.

The women-empowered company, which is focused on servicing the mining sector and the construction industry, specialises in the health and fitness of employees, ensuring that its clients are legally compliant by rendering medical surveillance and wellness assessments in line with the legal requirements of the Department of Mineral Resources and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, among others.

“Kriel Occupational & Wellness Centre, in Kriel, Mpumalanga, is well positioned to provide occupational health services for the immediate businesses and mines in the area, and through our mobile services we are able to reach outlying communities and businesses in their provinces throughout Southern Africa,” explains the centre.

The company offers medical surveillance, a travel clinic, primary healthcare and mobile digital X-rays and can supply solutions to meet a client’s specific occupational health services needs.

Medical surveillance comprises a physical examination, audiometric screening, a lung function test, vision screening, chest X-rays, urinalysis and a health risk assessment.

The centre’s primary healthcare services involve HIV counselling and testing, blood pressure and diabetic monitoring and health education on nutrition, as well as prostate and breast cancer screening

Kriel Occupational & Wellness Centre offers comprehensive occupational health services that include first aid box refilling and first aid training, safety inductions and access to corporate gifts/wellness incentives suppliers and medical suppliers, and is partnered with ambulance/emergency services.

In addition to its clinic in Kriel, the company has two mobile clinics for deployment to clients’ sites across Southern Africa. These travel clinics are staffed by teams of qualified occupational health staff led by doctors.

The centre’s qualified medical doctors use the latest technological equipment to deliver a service that is of the highest quality, states Kriel Occupational & Wellness Centre, which is in the process of implementing ISO 9001.