adminVictor Maphosa Herald Correspondent
Chitungwiza Municipality, in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has built two pharmaceutical warehouses, which will enable storage of large amounts of drugs mainly used in council clinics. During an interview with The Herald in Chitungwiza this week, Chitugwiza Municipality’s director of health and environmental services, Dr Tonderai Kasu, said the warehouses were at roof level and in a few weeks, they would be usable.
“The construction of the UNDP-funded warehouses for pharmaceutical drugs are almost complete and these are built at Zengeza Clinic and another structure built at Seke South Clinic,” he said.
“As you know, one of our core mandate as the department of health is to implement national public health programmes which, among others, have to do with HIV and TB programmes, and these programmes need drugs, lots of drugs.”
Dr Kasu commended UNDP for funding the construction of the warehouses and said Chitungwiza’s health system would benefit immensely from the ware- houses.
He said the drugs would be stored under a certain temperature so that when they are used on patients, they serve their purpose.
“Drugs are effective when they are stored and maintained under a certain temperature, so these warehouses would be equipped in such a way that the drugs can be stored under a certain temperature,” Dr Kasu.
“This will enable them to be effective when used by the patients.”
UNDP will assist with all the required equipment for the storage, said Dr Kasu.
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