Tsvangirai re-opens 3 theatres at Harare Hospital

HARARE –Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday reopened three theatres and a renal unit at Harare Central Hospital. The main theatres were closed down eight years ago. The theatres have been fully re-equipped with new theatre tables, theatre lights, ventilator patient monitors and a new piped gas system.

Ten new ventilators have also been installed in the Intensive Care Unit, including a dialysis machine. The Prime Minister also commissioned the first of two boilers to be installed at the hospital. This is the third visit to the hospital by Tsvangirai since assuming office as the Prime Minister in February 2009.

“Harare Central Hospital was the first institution in the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare to benefit from the targeted approach in resuscitating the health sector which had collapsed. I remember the sorry and dismal state the hospital was in during my first visit and this prompted us to prioritise Harare Central Hospital in the targeted approach,’ Tsvangirai said.

“This was only logical as this is the largest central hospital in the country and focuses mainly in attending to the poor segment of the community. This left the hospital with only three theatres in the adult main hospital which created a very serious bottleneck for patients requiring theatre time,” Tsvangirai added.

During the tour, the MDC President was accompanied by the Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr. Henry Madzorera, the deputy Minister of Media, Information and Publicity, Hon. Murisi Zwizwai, the deputy Minister of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development, Sesel Zvidzai and the chief executive of Harare Central Hospital, Julius Nderere.