No ambulance for provincial hospital

smaller health centres.
The crisis is made worse when some complicated cases need to be referred to Harare.
Hospital medical superintendent Dr Collett Mawire told a delegation led by Governor and Resident Minister Faber Chidarikire last week that the hospital was in dire need of funding for it to operate at full capacity.
“Currently we are operating without an ambulance, which makes things complicated because there is a lot of shuttling between Harare and Chinhoyi when we have to refer cases to major hospitals like Parirenyatwa and Harare Hospital,” he said.
The hospital, Dr Mawire said, needed at least two reliable ambulances.
He said the hospital handled many referred cases from almost all the six districts in the province.
Governor Chidarikire said he would engage Government and other stakeholders to ensure that the hospital had a reliable ambulance.
The hospital has received less than US$100 000 so far this year from the fiscus.
However, hospital authorities say the institution, which does not have an autoclave machine to sterilise dryers for laundry, is earmarked to get US$1,5 million from Government this year.
The hospital is now taking its laundry to Father O’ Hear Hospital in Zvimba or Chitungwiza Central Hospital.
Dr Mawire appealed for intervention from the Governor who was accompanied by provincial administrator Mr Christopher Shumba to spare the hospital from power cuts.
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company commercial manager Mr Cripson Mutyambizi said the power concern had managed to ensure that the hospital got minimal load shedding.