There is fear of contraction of Covid19 after one of the
patients tested positive recently.
The Mirror is told that sometimes staff are using their
meagre resources to buy masks for themselves. They also resort reuse
non-recyclable masks, said a source.
Ngomahru Medical Superintendent, Parerenyatwa Maramba
confirmed the situation and told The Mirror that the hospital’s allocation is
not enough.
“We get masks from the medical provincial offices; our last
consignment was two weeks ago and we are running out. We usually end up buying
for ourselves but this time we don’t have money to do that,” said Dr Maramba.
“One of our patients tested positive last week and we are
scared because we work with so many patients yet we are not fully protected,”
said a nurse who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Provincial Medical Director Amadeaus Shamhu said that
consignments for personal protective equipment are allocated from the Head
Office to the provinces and they distribute them to institutions.
“We have not received complaints about this yet, but the
protective equipment come as consignments from the head office and we
distribute them to the institutions. We are waiting for the next consignment,”
said Dr Shamhu.
Ngomahuru is a psychiatric hospital in Masvingo with a
carrying capacity of more than 200 patients. Masvingo Mirror
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