St. Raphael Health Recovery Clinic | Together we care better!

Our History

Since 1994, when I started working in healthcare emergency services, first in the Private Sector, I came across the social and financial problems in the life of our community members. I realized that it's the right time and the right place to try and change something. In March 2003, St. Gabriel Community Services CC was born!

After 15 years of hard work and worries, I started to achieve results. Many times I fell on my knees but I always stood up one more time and this is the most important thing.

Just keep walking and trust!

Much appreciated!

Thank you very much to all individuals and businesses who have the community's well-being as their number one priority.

My appreciation to St. Gabriel

Words cannot begin to express my gratitude to you Ms. Gabriela Teleman, owner of the St. Gabriel Community Services CC and founder of St. Raphael Health Recovery Clinic, together with your well-abled team of staff.

In early January this year, you selflessly heeded to a desperate call from me seeking assistance for a fellow community member in Kuisebmond who suffered from terminal breast cancer. The State institutions refused to attend to her on the premise that her condition was at an advanced stage hence left to die at home. Upon hearing my plea, you summoned me to the St. Raphael Health Recovery Clinic together with the late Ms. Maureen Petrina Kooper, who sadly succumbed to cancer on January 18th, 2018.

Thank you, Gabriela, for administering medication, observing her for a day and for having given the late Ms. Kooper dignified treatment amidst her pain and weak state. Surely when I returned to collect her from your health facility, she looked so much better, felt stronger and was able to walk on her own. Your team not only administered medication, but treated her like a human being, and that her life mattered (a human quality that greatly lacks in the majority of our state health personnel).

Although Ms. Kooper is no more, on behalf of the family, myself and everyone who assisted in making sure she felt loved during the last days of her life on earth, I wish to sincerely thank you and your team for being there every time we called on you for assistance, for being there even on January 17th, 2018 to rush her to the state hospital in Walvis Bay. It was your team at the Hospital that administered treatment while state personnel was present, it was the St. Gabriel Community Services CC oxygen supply that kept her alive, your team checked her blood pressure and ran observation tests on her in our presence. When she was handed over to the state, sadly not long thereafter she died.

May her soul rest eternally.

My prayer and wish for your organization, Gabriela, is that you be blessed, may the good Lord enlarge your territory and that of your team. Thank you for the selfless act of kindness to assist the community of Walvis Bay. I forgot to mention that you did all the above at no cost to the family. That is truly commendable and I cannot thank you enough.

Please pass my sincere thanks to the paramedics and staff at St. Raphael Health Recovery Clinic who attended to Ms. Kooper for a job indeed, well done. We are truly grateful for the courtesy and compassion showed to the late Ms. Kooper, and the family during that difficult time.

God bless you!

Cliff Shikuambi (Namport) Executive Assistant to the CEO

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Privacy Policy

Personal Data Protection Statement

St. Gabriel Community Services CC implements measures to protect your personal data. The following data protection statement informs you about the personal data that is collected when using this website and how it will be processed, used and protected.

1. Scope of application

1.1. The following data protection declaration applies to the use of the website straphaelclinic.com and the associated sites.

1.2. The data controller is: St. Gabriel Community Services CC, located at 80, 6th Street, P.O. Box 1939, Walvis Bay, Erongo, Namibia hereinafter referred to as "St. Gabriel Community Services CC". The Data Protection Officer can be contacted at: help@stgabrielambulance.com

1.3 Personal data relating to information of a specific or identifiable natural person fall within the category of personal data. This includes, for example, information such as name, e-mail address or telephone number as well as usage data such as IP address. Personal data are collected, processed and used in accordance with the legal provisions.

2. Automated data collection and processing by the browser

2.1 As with all websites, our server automatically and temporarily collects and stores the following information in the server log files that are transmitted by the browser (if you have not disabled the cookies):

• the IP address of the requesting computer
• the client's request for files
• the http response code
• the amount of data transferred
• the website from which you visit us (referring URL)
• the date and time of the server request
• the browser type, version and language
• the operating system used by the requesting computer

The personal data stored in the log files will not be used. Your provider cannot at any time link this data to specific individuals. These data are not cross-referenced with other data sources.

3. Collection and processing of data communicated

3.1. Contact data is used to manage the business relationship with its customers - including (unless they refuse) informing them about products or services similar or complementary to those they have already subscribed to. Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of St. Gabriel Community Services CC and to make their clients aware of and advise them on products and services. These data are only accessible by St. Gabriel Community Services CC and its employees.

3.2. The storage period of your data is limited to the duration of the data processing and to the subsequent period during which the storage of the data is necessary to enable the controller to comply with his obligations according to the limitation periods or in application of other legal provisions.

4. Transmission of data to third parties

4.1 The personal data you have provided to St. Gabriel Community Services CC will not be passed on to third parties.

5. Your rights

5.1 Without having to give any reasons, you can obtain information about your personal data stored by St. Gabriel Community Services CC free of charge.

5.2 Furthermore, in accordance with the legal provisions, you have the right to rectify, limit and delete your personal data. If you have given consent for the use of the data, you may withdraw your consent at any time and without giving any reasons.

5.3 The user can exercise these rights by sending a request to help@stgabrielambulance.com

5.4. If you have any questions regarding data protection, you can contact the Data Protection Officer by sending an e-mail to help@stgabrielambulance.com

5.5. You also have the option of lodging a complaint to a supervisory authority regarding the protection of personal data.