Mpilo’s ‘White House’ nears completion
Government availed $287 million to fund the reconstruction of three doctors’ quarters that were burnt down.
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Government availed $287 million to fund the reconstruction of three doctors’ quarters that were burnt down.
Moyo, who had just joined the teaching profession, was not yet on medical aid when he was involved in the accident.
Doctors said he had a complete spinal cord injury with ASIA meaning a thoracic vertebrae T9 and T10 had been crushed leaving the spinal cord severely compressed.
More than 60 doctors and nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital are in isolation after testing positive to Covid-19, a development that has crippled health care service delivery at the hospital.
The Government has started refurbishing burnt and dilapidated doctors’ residences at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo.
Bulawayo’s Mpilo Central Hospital has ejected trainee nurses from its hostels to allow for renovations following a recent fire incident that gutted a doctors’ residence at the referral centre, destroying property worth US$500 000. The fire was blamed on the facility’s lack of maintenance.
Trees and grass have grown in a structure that was supposed to house a mortuary at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo which has not been completed 25 years after its construction started.
The Government has resolved to renovate the Mpilo Central Hospital doctors’ residence that burned down on Wednesday and help affected workers replace destroyed personal belongings and certificates.
About 39 people housed at a Mpilo Central Hospital block scrambled to safety through a single window on Wednesday night after the building caught fire due to a suspected electrical fault.
A fire that gutted the doctors’ residence at Bulawayo’s Mpilo Hospital saw one doctor suffer a fractured leg and caused property damage estimated at least US$500 000, says the medical facility’s acting chief executive Professor Solwayo Ngwenya.
Three children from Old Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo who ate poison after their cousin mistook it for brown sugar on Saturday, are stable and remain admitted to Mpilo Central Hospital.