13.3K
Downloads
1293
Episodes
RX Radio is a radio station– run by and for children - at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. The initiative aims to create a platform for communication between hospitalised children, their families, and the health services by providing patients with the skills and support to produce and broadcast radio programmes across the hospital. In addition, we are a project initiated under the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital Facility Board.
Episodes
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Did you know that the 8th of September every year is International Physiotherapy Day? And every year, the physios at Red Cross Children’s Hospital celebrate the whole week with a themed celebration – bringing education and awareness about important parts of physio and how it can help us grow and develop. This year, they are focusing on Gross Motor Milestones and here to talk to us about this today, we have Elzette Van Dyk.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Young Reporter Litha chats to the Executive Director of ChildSafe, Zaitoon Rabaney, about dog bites. She discusses how families can protect themselves from dog bites, and gives tips to dog owners about making sure that their pets are safe and happy.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
In light of National Oral Health Month in August, we spoke to Dr Linda Greenwall from the Dental Wellness Foundation. Founded by Dr Linda in 2011, the Foundation works in the townships of Cape Town to care for the oral health of many children and elderly people every day. They started supervised tooth-brushing programmes in schools and educare centres, and now look after over 16,000 children in South Africa and over 12,000 in UK, Kenya and Nirobi. The Charity also set up soup kitchens to feed the children in Mfuleni and Khayelitsha at the start of the pandemic and have since continue this worthwhile cause.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Theo Le Roux has been a full time mural artist for the past 18 years – specialising in murals for kids’ rooms. He’s been fortunate enough to be painting murals all over South Africa and traveling to some African states too. He has also worked with NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK for many years, uplifting Children's Homes and underprivileged day-care centres. Recently he painted a new mural at Brooklyn Chest Hospital.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
On the Brooklyn Chest Show, Sesethu interviewed Phumeza Tisile about TB Advocacy. In 2010, Phumeza was diagnosed with XDR-TB and against all odds, she was cured in 2013, although she was left deaf. In 2015, she got a once in a lifetime chance to hear again with Cochlear Implants. She is now a Health Activist, student at UCT, and an Advocacy Officer at TB Proof – an organisation that advocates for high quality TB prevention and care. Phumeza presented the first Drug Resistant TB Manifesto at the 67th World Health Assembly in Geneva which she co-authored. And in 2014 she was awarded the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans in the category DR-TB activist.
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
We will be chatting today on our registrar show about the importance of a healthy lifestyle and we will be talking to Dr Nxamalo about this topic. Dr Nxamalo is a newly qualified paediatrician from Newcastle in Kwa-Zulu Natal. He loves plants and gardening.
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Ntombenhle Ngwane has been working for the SAHRC for the past 10 years and she is currently working as a Project Manager for the Social Harmony National Effort (SHiNE-SA). Ntombenhle holds a Master of Management degree in the field of Public Policy from the University of Witwatersrand. She spoke to Lilah about this National Effort and how it aims to build a more caring society.
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
With us in studio we had Phumza Jongihlathi from the Two Oceans Aquarium. The Two Oceans Aquarium were at Red Cross Children’s Hospital for Mandela Day 2022, and in this clip Phumza tells us more about this visit.
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. There are many factors that influence these conditions, and we believe that creating more positive conditions, we can have a healthier and more caring society. Prof Crick Lund, the Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at King’s College London, and Honorary Professor in the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health at UCT, spoke to us about this topic.