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Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent
THE Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in Matabeleland South, Cde Abedinico Ncube, has called on the business community to support health institutions to ensure improved service delivery.He made the call on Friday last week at the handover ceremony of 10 user friendly 240litre trolley bins and 10x50kg bags of mealie meal donated by Edgars Stores and Kabka Enterprises to Gwanda Provincial Hospital.
Cde Ncube said companies should extend a helping hand and enhance service delivery at health institutions.
“I would like to call upon other organisations and the business community to emulate this noble gesture by Edgars Stores and Kabka Enterprises to contribute to the upgrading of health care facilities in our community,” he said.
Cde Ncube expressed gratitude over the gesture and said the joining of hands between Government and the private sector would also improve the quality of care for patients.
“The donation of 10 trolley bins by Edgars Stores comes at a time when infection control issues reign supreme in the Ministry of Health and Child Care and communities in general. As a health care facility Gwanda Provincial Hospital cannot adequately address infection control without provisions for healthcare waste management,” he said.
Cde Ncube also thanked Kabka Enterprises for the mealie meal donation saying it would help to help boost the immune system of the patients who must eat before or after taking their medication.
The hospital authorities were challenged to put the donations to good use. Edgars and Jet Stores Chains Administrator Mr Davis Gwemende said his firm made the donation because it was concerned about the welfare of people who supported their stores.
“We ask ourselves what fashion would mean if those around us are engulfed in conditions that threaten their health.
“It is in that regard that we heard the outcry of Gwanda Hospital and came forward with this small gesture of support,” he said.
Mrs Abigail Dube of Kabka Enterprises said they would continue supporting the hospital by supplying maize meal every month.
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