Online Reporter
Walter Nyamukondiwa
Mashonaland West Bureau Chief
The final selection for the first cohort students to be enrolled at the Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa School of Nursing, with more than 3 000 potential students having applied.
The Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa School of Nursing is part of the Jimayi Muduvuri Pan African Hospital and will have its first group of students starting on May 4.
Sealed boxed of the application letters from potential students from across the country were opened today.
Officials from the Ministry of Health and Child Care, police officers and the hospital are part of the selection panel to ensure transparency.
Tutor-in-charge Ms Lusica Shumba said all was set for the opening of school.
“Everything needed to ensure proper discharge of education to the students in the first intake of the school is now in place,” she said.
“We have started the selection of the students today by opening at least six boxes full of applications. We have to whittle down the figure to 20 students observing the spirit of devolution.”
Director of the school, Cde Jimayi Muduvuri, said the selection team should observe fairness and representation of all provinces.
“This is a project in honour of the First Lady and everything should be done above board,” said Cde Muduvuri.
“In the spirit of Devolution and not leaving anyone or place behind, we want the selectors to select people from all provinces.”
Being disabled and undergoing several operations, he said, had influenced him to invest in the country’s health system.
To that end, he has established health centres in all the country’s provinces named after the historical luminaries, including the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Clinic in Zvimba, the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Clinic in Gwanda, among others.
At least three classrooms, a library and a theatre with state-of-the-art equipment have been prepared for the school.
Cde Muduvuri said engagements are currently underway with the regulator and the Ministry of Health to increase the number of students from the current 20 to around 100 students per intake.
“For a start, we have been allowed to enroll 20 students, but owing to the overwhelming respons , which will attribute to association of the First Lady, we need to absorb students,” he said.
“On our part, we have been tasked to increase boarding facilities for the students, which we are currently doing.”
