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Sikhumbuzo Moyo, Senior Reporter
THE need for human resources in the form of healthcare workers is ever-increasing and cannot be overlooked due to emerging diseases, health emergencies and traditional disease burden.
The call was made by the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Chief of Staff Administration Major General Asher Walter Tapfumaneyi, who officiated at a combined graduation ceremony for 149 students from the army’s Health Services Training School at Imbizo Barracks on Friday.
Other security services’ students came from the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services.
The students undertook courses in Registered General Nursing (RGN), which had 30 students, State Certified Traumatology Nurse (SCTN), which had 35 students, the same number as Environmental Health Technicians (EHT). The Medical Assistants Class Two (MA111) had 49 students.
“Emerging diseases have caused enormous challenges globally to health delivery systems, socio-economic activities and to the general well-being of mankind. The effects of these health challenges are more pronounced in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing economies and Zimbabwe is no exception.
Our situation is compounded by the illegal sanctions imposed by the Western countries as a punitive action in response to our noble cause to correct colonial injustices, the land issue,” said Maj Gen Tapfumaneyi.
He warned the graduates against drug and substance abuse, which have of late become a health emergency that threatens socio-economic activities, health delivery systems and more crucially, the security of nations.
Bongani Ndlovu