Sundaymail EditorNearly a month after being evicted from Harare’s Trauma Centre and Hospital, prominent medical practitioner Dr Vivek Solanki has opened a new state-of-the-art hospital in Borrowdale suburb. Trauma Centre Borrowdale — a 24-hour emergency unit — is said to offer aviation medicine, paediatric care, audiology, physiotherapy, X-ray/Ultra Sound, doctors’ rooms and a laboratory. It provides full aviation medicines for pilots, cabin crew and air traffic controllers. “As a senior aviation doctor, (I have ensured) the new hospital also caters for those in aviation as authorised by the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe,” said Dr Solanki.
“We don’t have cancer treatment yet, but we hope to continue once we re-open Trauma Centre Harare because the ownership issue has not yet been finalised. It’s pending at the High Court. “. . .It’s up to us as Zimbabweans not to allow foreigners to derail local initiatives to improve the health sector. These outsiders do not have the interests of Zimbabweans at heart.”
Trauma Centre Harare was closed after an ownership wrangle between the health institution’s former chief executive, Dr Solanki, and African Medical Investments (AMI).
The matter is still to be heard in the Constitutional Court.
Dr Solanki argues that AMI is reneging on a five million British pounds share purchase agreement entered into in September 2009.
AMI did not release shares in line with the agreement. AMI officials and Dr Solanki also clashed after the former bought an aeroplane without the latter’s knowledge.
Further, Dr Solanki argues that AMI and Autoband (Dr Solanki’s company) did not sign an agreement of sale for Trauma Centre Harare. However, AMI Plc chairman Mr Peter Botha insists that his company owns the property.
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