PARIRENYATWA Hospital, the largest referral centre in Zimbabwe, has approved a plan to partition one of its wings into a COVID-19 treatment facility after the government was informed that equipping Wilkins Hospital only in Harare for coronavirus patients was inadequate.<\/p>\n
Zimbabwe now has 14 confirmed COVID-19 cases including three deaths.<\/p>\n
During a tour of the hospital Sunday, Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo said it was encouraging that the medical facility already had some of the equipment and machinery needed for COVID-19 treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hospital is currently in the process of converting part of the hospital into a COVID-19 treatment facility,\u201d confirmed Moyo after the tour of the hospital.<\/p>\n
He assured Zimbabweans that coronavirus cases would be handled well at the referral hospital as extreme caution would be exercised and the COVID-19 unit shall not interfere with the operations of other health facilities at Parirenyatwa.<\/p>\n
The giant facility has a maternity unit, out-patients wing, private wards, general public wards, eye centre, a school of nursing and staff residences, among other services.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be no crossing of infections into the hospital as patients will be isolated and this will go a long way in improving service delivery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The development to set-up a COVID-19 medical facility at Parirenyatwa Hospital, comes at a time the government is facing fierce criticism over perceived reluctance to provide financial resources for building infrastructure for managing and treatment of patients including carrying out mass public tests.<\/p>\n
However, Moyo could not give a date as to when work on renovating the COVID-19 medical centre could start, only claiming it would start soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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