Unity Day Babies

Over fifteen babies were born at Mpilo central hospital

 as the country gathered to bury the former senator at 

the National Heroes Acre on Unity Day.

The unity accord was signed by two political parties,

 ZANU PF and PF-ZAPU in 1987.

The Mpilo Hospital Public Relations Officer, Ozias 

Ndlovu, yesterday said twenty two babies were delivered.

 Thirteen of these were girls while nine were boys.

He added that nineteen babies were delivered normally

 while three were born through caesarean section.

Several mothers have urged the government and the donor

 community to continue improving the conditions in the 

labour ward especially equipping them with delivery kits.

“We truly want to thank the hospital for waging us donor 

support and we ask all relevant stakeholders to continue 

supporting the institution to match the modern global

 standard,” said a mother who was assisted to deliver her

 first child.

AUCTION DAY

The National Auctioneers of Zimbabwe are at Mpilo Central Hospital junk yard in a bidding session where scrap metal dealers are expected to attend.

In an interview with Prosper Ncube, Mpilo Central Hospital (MCH) Main Stores Head of department, all bidders will arrive after ten oclock this morning to select their lots.

“All documentation procedures have been done and today is the day that we have set aside for the general public to clear the yard,” said Ncube.

obsolete equipment

According to Joe Charangwa, the hospital Director of Operations, all obsolete and unserviceable medical equipment are under auction. Anaesthetic machines, difbilators, theatre tables and lights, hospital beds, patient lockers, dripstands, trolleys and incubators are some of the materials in the lots.

 

Ncube standing to hospital beds under auction

incubators at the junk yard

"we are doing this for government asset disposal. we dont put them unedr auction willy-nillly,"said Charangwa at the junk yard.

RTA VICTIMS RECEIVE DONATIONS

Since decades, the international community has brought harmony to the Road Traffic Accident victims.

Firstly they discovered that around 186 300 children under eighteen years die from road traffic accident crashes annually and rates of road traffic deaths are three times higher in developing countries than in developed countries.

Secondly, they engaged the African community to join them in setting aside a day to commemorate the day in which a board, national safety council, was established with Zimbabwe among the countries with such victims.

TSCZ regional manager (standing) explains the use of fruit and health pack. 

On Saturday 21 November 2015, the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) donated 30 pairs of bed sheets with pillows, fruit packs and hygiene packs to Mpilo Central Hospital, and Sichelesile Moyo-Ncube, the institution’s board chair received the hampers.

MpiloCentral Hospital is the biggest hospital in southern Zimbabwe and a referral unit servicing patients from Bulawayo and the Metropolitan province. District hospitals from Matabeleland South and Matabeleland North, Midlands province and Masvingo all send their patients to the health institution.

According to Barbara Mpofu, the TSCZ regional manager, the fruit and hygiene packs are meant to assist the patients in the wards, both adults and children.

Jays Marabini (center) in the Mpilo ward

“Most people who are admitted at the hospital at most times won’t be carrying either fruits or a tooth brush or a towel to aid them during the hospitalisation period,” said Mpofu.

TSCZ Ambassador, Jays Marabini, and a brother to Moyo-Ncube presented gifts to three patients accompanied by their nurses at the Out-Patients Department Hall.

The council was accompanied by their stakeholders who also visited other victims in the wards. Some of these are the EMRAS, the Roman Catholic and the Methodist church.

The acting public relations officer, matron S F Ndlovu said the female ward had the most number of victims whist the paediatric unit had only one child. Muchena, the TSCZ chairman presented the children’s high way code to the hospital to the children’s ward.

Everyday more than five hundred children lose their lives in traffic crashes globally. Thousands are injured.