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.