The Health Services Board (HSB) intends to recruit 900
nurses to fully staff referral hospitals, board chairperson, Dr Paulinus
Sikosana has said.
Dr Sikosana said there were shortages of nurses and
specialists in referral hospitals. He said there were only vacancies for 646
trained general nurses.
“As you are aware, the board is on a tour of hospitals and
this time we are in the Midlands. We have just toured Kwekwe General Hospital
and from our observation and the briefing we got from the medical
superintendent, there is need for more nurses and specialists for them to cope
with the workload.
“As the board, we have since requested for an additional
900 nurses to fill in the gaps in the hospitals and we are now waiting for the
Treasury response to our request,” he said.
Dr Sikosana said the hospital needed to be equipped with a
fully-fledged casualty department.
“Kwekwe General Hospital is on a major road, the
Bulawayo-Harare Highway. Staff often attend to major accidents and there is
need for a casualty department. There is also need for a consultancy at the
hospital so that we provide not just basic, but quality health delivery
system,” he said.
Dr Sikosana said the board will improve conditions for
health workers.
“We are aware of the current economic environment, but as
the employer we are working on a raft of measures meant to incentivise the
workers. We are a listening board and we value the service that our health
workers do to keep the country healthy,” he said. Herald
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