Trust spruces up Sally Mugabe Central Hospital

Anesu Tonde Herald Reporter

Southerton Constituency Development Trust (SCDT) recently sourced equipment to remove garbage at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) in response to calls by President Mnangagwa for a clean environment.

The Trust used a front-end loader to load rubbish into a tipper truck, with its members assisting in picking up litter.

SCDT chairman, an aspiring Member of Parliament for Southerton, Mr Andrew Makahamadze, said the development was a positive response to calls by President Mnangagwa to ensure a clean environment.

He said clean up were supposed to be a culture inculcated in children.

Mr Makahamadze said the hospital’s operations division requested for equipment to remove rubbish within the health facility’s grounds after city officials, who are responsible, failed to do so.

“We were asked by the hospital’s director of operations Mr Gwata to help with the removal of garbage that has been piling up due to non-collection by the city council and we responded quickly,” said Mr Makahamadze.

“We want to make this a culture because it is our children’s inheritance. Our vision is to see this hospital becoming a state-of-the-art facility since our mother, First Lady Amai Auxilia Mnangagwa, is the patron. We are going to assist whenever necessary to ensure that we push the President’s vision.

“We feel very honoured to be rendering our assistance free of charge because we share a cordial relationship with the hospital board, as well as the chief executive Dr Tinashe Dhobbie.”

Dr Dhobbie thanked Mr Makahamadze and the Trust for continuing to assist the hospital.

“Mr Makahamadze is like our first born here at the hospital,” he said. “He is doing a lot, including the refurbishment of the drainage system, which was poorly done initially, but now the challenge has been overcome.”