Zimbabwe: Govt to Refurbish Major Hospitals

22 April 2016

Government has embarked on a rehabilitation of hospitals along highways to boost capacity to handle emergencies, particularly emanating from road traffic accidents. Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa said the country's roads are becoming narrower, therefore, dangerous to users resulting in many accidents, which sadly have to be taken care of at these hospitals.

"There is a real disaster in terms of our roads. Our roads are now too narrow and more accidents are happening. Because of that, many of these accidents come to our institutions," said Dr Parirenyatwa. Last week he visited Chivhu Hospital along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway where he observed that the hospital's emergency room had become smaller compared to the burden of emergencies attended there.

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