adminJohn Murwira Herald Correspondent
Government has ordered Community Empowerment Foundation of Zimbabwe, a private organisation that has been offering nurse-aide training in Chinhoyi, to stop operating until it’s regularised.
The institution has been battling accusations of fleecing students through offering two-week nurse aide training courses. Mashonaland West provincial health and promotions officer Mr George Kambondo told The Herald recently that the provincial medical director (PMD) had a meeting with directors of the private organisation and ordered them to stop operating.
“The nurse aide training had not come through the PMD’s office and we have ordered the institution to stop operating while making sure they regularise their operations first, including all other requirements,” he said
“We also stopped them from using the Ministry of Health and Child Care logo and to discontinue attachments with hospitals and clinics.” The foundation had continued to operate despite previous directives from Government to stop. Its managing director Mrs Locadia Kadonzvo said they would comply with Government’s directive.
“We met the PMD and had a meeting with him where we were ordered to regularise our operations, to which our directors have already started the process,” she said.
Last year, Government launched an investigation into the organisation’s operations, amid reports that it was offering a two-week nurse aide training course at Gadzema Council Clinic.
The foundation had reportedly enrolled 231 aspiring nurse aides on promises that they would be employed by Government and private institutions. There were also reports that Government had not sanctioned the training programme.
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