Date: 17 May 2025
Location: Midrand
Speaker: Clifford Legodi, Chief Operations Officer, SayPro
[Opening – Greeting and Acknowledgement]
Good morning, everyone.
It’s a great honour to join you all here in Midrand on this meaningful occasion — World Hypertension Day 2025.
On behalf of the SayPro operations team, I extend our warmest thanks to our partners, healthcare professionals, volunteers, and frontline teams who make this work real, measurable, and life-changing.
Today, as we embrace the theme “Measure Your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer,” I want to speak to the importance of turning that message into action — on the ground, in communities, and through systems that work.
[Operationalising Health Equity]
At SayPro, operations are not just about logistics and plans — they are about execution with impact.
Hypertension is a preventable condition. But to prevent it, we must get services to where people are, not wait for them to come to us.
That’s the challenge. And that’s our mission.
Whether it’s delivering screening equipment to rural clinics, training local volunteers, or deploying digital education tools in multiple languages — operational efficiency is what makes access possible.
[What SayPro is Doing – Strategy in Action]
This year, our operations team has played a vital role in scaling SayPro’s community health initiatives — including our World Hypertension Day campaign. Let me share some highlights:
- We’ve mobilised blood pressure screening stations across 8 provinces in South Africa.
- We’ve coordinated over 300 trained facilitators and nurses to deliver health education and screenings in clinics, schools, and public transport hubs.
- We launched our Mobile Health Activation Units — vehicles equipped to provide blood pressure testing, health education, and referral support in under-resourced areas.
- And we’re using real-time tracking systems to ensure resources are distributed where the need is greatest.
All of this is made possible by solid planning, local partnerships, and a commitment to operational excellence.
[Bridging the Gap Between Awareness and Access]
We know that awareness is essential — but access is everything.
People can’t manage what they can’t measure. And they can’t measure what they can’t reach. Our job, operationally, is to remove every barrier possible — cost, distance, time, complexity — so that care becomes a right, not a privilege.
That’s what we do at SayPro every day — turning commitment into logistics, strategy into service, and planning into impact that matters.
[Call to Action – Let’s Deliver Health Where It’s Needed Most]
So today, I want to call on every operations leader, programme manager, and partner:
- Let’s be relentless about delivery.
- Let’s work smarter, collaborate wider, and respond faster.
- Let’s make health access a logistical certainty, not a hopeful wish.
And to every community member — take that step. Visit our screening stations. Learn your numbers. Ask questions. Your health is our mission — and we’re here to serve.
[Closing – Making It Happen, Together]
In closing, I want to thank the SayPro team — especially our operations, health, and logistics staff — for ensuring that this campaign doesn’t just live on posters, but in real services, real screenings, and real results.
World Hypertension Day 2025 is not just about raising awareness.
It’s about delivering care. And we are proud to lead that delivery.
Thank you for being part of this effort — and thank you for helping us reach every heart that needs us.
Let’s measure. Let’s mobilise. Let’s make it happen.
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