NEW: Fire guts staff residence at Kwekwe Hospital

Online Reporter 

Property worth thousands of dollars was destroyed Tuesday morning after a fire gutted staff residence at Kwekwe General Hospital.

Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Mr Nick Mangwana confirmed the incident.

Posting on Twitter, Mr Mangwana said: “A nurses’ and doctors’ cottage at Kwekwe General Hospital has been gutted by fire. Resource mobilisation already underway.”

Kwekwe General Hospital medical superintendent Dr Patricia Mapanda told our sister paper The Chronicle that victims “lost almost everything” in the inferno”.

“I can confirm that a fire broke out, razed one of the staff residences and destroyed property. The staff members, including doctors, lost almost everything as they did not get time to remove their property,” said Dr Mapanda.

The incident follows another inferno at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo which destroyed property worth US$500 000.