VP Chiwenga said this on touching down here this morning
for the 5th edition of the Patient Safety Global Ministerial Summit.
VP Chiwenga arrived just in time for the high level global
health leaders interface after a hectic schedule back home which saw him
joining President Mnangagwa and other dignitaries at the commemorations of this
year’s National Youth day held in Lupane.
It’s a busy work ethic that defines President Mnangagwa’s
administration as Government forges ahead with the quest to rapidly improve
people’s lives.
Zimbabwe is attending this “very important” summit at the
invitation of Switzerland leader, President Alain Berset, who assumed the
rotational Swiss presidency in January.
Speaking to the media on arrival in Geneva where he
immediately set off for the resort City of
Montreux which is hosting the health leaders’ gather, Vice President
Chiwenga said Zimbabwe looks forward to share notes on how to best guarantee patient
safety over and above giving them treatment for which they would have checked
into hospital.
He said he is also looking forward to engage with
international health funders.
“We have come here to share ideas and discuss on patient
safety in our hospitals, (and) in our medical facilities,” said VP Chiwenga.
“We will be discussing quite a number of issues with the
World Health Organisation and I will be discussing other issues with global
funders.
“So, it will be a number of organisations, I will be
discussing with under the United Nations umbrella to do with health,” he said.
The summit brings together international health leaders
seeking to share notes and tap from each other’s experiences in combating the
continued exposure of patients to harm and secondary infections having checked
into a hospital or health facility.
VP Chiwenga was received at the Geneva Airport by
Zimbabwe’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other
international organisations based in Geneva, Ambassador Stuart Comberbach.
Herald
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