MBERENGWA Rural District Council has embarked on a road rehabilitation project meant to improve the roads that link Mnene Mission Hospital and other clinics in the district.
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The project seeks to rehabilitate roads linking Mberengwa, Butika, Mupandashango and Mnene. Mberengwa North MP Tafanana Zhou confirmed that the roads were being refurbished as there were challenges in transporting the patients.
“Some patients die on the way (to hospital), as they will be being transported from rural clinics to the main hospital which is Mnene,” he said.
“We realised that it was best to first rehabilitate roads that linked the clinics and the hospital to curb unnecessary deaths.”
Zhou appealed to the government to develop Mberengwa District Hospital which he said was dilapidated and had no doctors.
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“People have to travel about 35km on dust roads to Mnene Hospital to see a doctor at, whereas there is Mberengwa hospital, which is government-owned,” he said.
Zhou said they were pushing for the opening of other clinics, such Chaza and Neta clinics, which were expected to cut the distance travelled by patients.
To compound matters further, there have been allegations of corruption at Mnene hospital, which could compromise healthcare in the district.
MPs reportedly raised alarm bells after it emerged that a suspected dubious company involved in supermarket businesses had been awarded a $700 000 tender to refurbish buildings and supply medical equipment to Mnene Mission Hospital.