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Patrick Chitumba Victoria Falls Reporter
MPILO Central Hospital is on the verge of entering into a strategic partnership with three Indian hospitals which will see the hospital benefiting from Indian medical specialists and equipment. In an interview on the sidelines of the just ended Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) annual stakeholders’ conference in Victoria Falls, Mpilo Central Hospital chief executive officer, Dr Lawrence Mantiziba, said he was going to lead a team from the hospital to India.
He said the visit to India was meant to familiarise with Artemis, Fortis and Medanta hospitals, the three institutions his hospital intended to partner with.
Dr Mantiziba said under the proposed arrangement, the hospitals were expected to second specialists to Mpilo Central Hospital thereby addressing the challenge of seeking specialist medical services in other countries.
Turning to the multi-million dollar partnerships the hospital has entered into with several companies, a church, hospitals and Bulawayo United Residents’ Association (Bura), Dr Mantiziba said results were beginning to show as evidenced by the refurbishment and resuscitation of some key wards and machinery at the hospital.
Dr Mantiziba said the private, public partnerships were working wonders for the hospital adding through them, they had managed to see the refurbishment of several wards including B6, A2, BA by the corporate world.
He said at the same time Bura was in the process of mobilising funds to put up a 4km parameter fence around the institution.
“From as early as 2009 we have entered into partnerships which have seen the installation of 14 dialysis machines by a company called Frezmas and we paid them back by buying consumables for the machines from them and come the end of 2014, the equipment will be ours,” he said.
Dr Mantiziba said Holiday Inn Hotel was renovating B6 ward, including the repair of toilets and tiles.
He said there was also Everlasting Gospel Church, which adopted B Ward that it is renovating.
POSB has also rehabilitated two boreholes and is working on another two.
Dr Mantiziba said Government had also availed $5 million for the radiotherapy machines refurbishment.
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