Naptosa’s executive director, Basil Manuel, said the survey was aimed at establishing the health status of teachers.
“At least 50% of teachers have some illness or the other whether it's hypertension, diabetes, HIV, TB, lung disease, cancer and so on. But of those, at least 25% have more than one condition, which puts them in a high risk category. Just over 13% of the respondents were smokers, the highest proportion of them in the Northern and Western Cape.“It changes our thinking about what we need to be intervening with when it comes to health matters. For the department of education it also means that we’ve got to step up our health education with our teachers. It’s a very useful HR tool that we have at our disposal.
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