adminSCORES of villagers from Bubi District in Matabeleland North Province yesterday received free medical services which were provided by the Zimbabwe Medical Association (Zima) as part of the organisation’s social responsibility programme.
The association deployed more than 60 medical practitioners to Inyathi District Hospital where they attended to more than 2 000 people.
Zima national vice-president Dr Emmanuel Shana, who was happy with the good turnout, revealed that more than $15 000 was spent on sourcing treatment which people received.
“This is one of our biggest turnouts and I am happy because it shows that people positively received the message. The local leadership and the Member of Parliament (Clifford Sibanda) for the area did a good job because people came in numbers,” said Dr Shana.
“What we are doing is part of the association’s social responsibility programme where we aim to keep our people healthy. We brought many specialists hence people are being checked and we are also giving them treatment for free. For the first time, we brought final year medical students from Nust with the aim of exposing them to the real world and prepare them for the future. We want them to come and work in rural areas after their studies.”
Bubi district medical officer Dr Tafadzwanashe Gwara said Zima did a sterling job by offering free medical treatment as the hospital cannot cater for most causes. He said the gesture was going to “leave happy and healthy families”.
Mr Reason Mathe, a local villager, who had a tooth extraction at the site, said he was happy that the medical practitioners had visited the community and treated them at no cost as they do not have the financial capacity to consult specialist doctors.
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