New nursing school for Kadoma

Herald Reporter

A new nursing school in Kadoma is part of efforts by the Government to double the health workforce, while ensuring significantly better public health services by 2028.

The Ministry of Health and Child Care has already engaged the Kadoma Cotton Training Centre (CTC) leadership to accommodate the school of nursing.

Addressing Ministry officials, CTC directors and staff during a tour of the Cotton Training Centre recently, Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Sleiman Timios Kwidini said the Government was determined to boost training of health professionals to avoid a workforce shortage in the country.

“We are determined as a country to improve public health services by doubling our workforce across the board. This can be achieved by increasing the number of nursing schools in the country and that way we can maximise on trainings.

“Here in Mashonaland West, we want to hit the ground running and ensure quality education in all our nursing schools,” he said.

Deputy Minister Kwidini said the school was expected to be self-sustainable and to accommodate students from all walks of life.

Kadoma CTC director, Mr Mafios Museve said the training centre had to be re-purposed as it was no longer serving its primary function. Converted to a nursing school it could accommodate 160 nursing students at a time.

“Kadoma Cotton Training Centre was for training cotton farmers around the country, but of late, we moved the training to the farmers.

“This means that our farmers are now being trained in their farming areas which then ends the purpose of this facility,

“We can accommodate 160 students and can house a quite a number of tutors as well as general staff,” he said.

Director nursing services, Ms Nyaradzai Chiwara applauded Government for stepping up efforts to boost training of nurses throughout the country.

“I would like to applaud our Government for swiftly moving to boost training of nurses throughout the country. This will definitely go a long way in doubling the health professionals by 2028 and help us curb the shortage of workforce we are currently facing.”