By Bulawayo Correspondent
THE government has seconded 12 nurses to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) run Thorngrove Infectious Diseases Hospital as part of measures to assist the local authority manage Covid-19 infections which are on the increase in the city.
Speaking during a donation of beds at the medical facility by the Mat Health and Zimbabwe Christian Alliance Wednesday, the BCC director for health services, Edwin Sibanda confirmed the nurses were from the United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) and will undergo training on how to treat Covid-19 patients.
“The current nurses do not have time to leave the ward. They have to be there all the time. We had a shortage of nurses and we appealed to the government for more nurses and they heard our plea,” said Sibanda.
The second wave of Covid-19 has since crippled the Bulawayo City Council (BCC)’s service delivery as most departments, including Public Relations have been hard-it, the mayor, Solomon Mguni, said Tuesday.
This comes at a time when the town clerk, Christopher Dube, recently tested positive for the pandemic, which has infected over 30,000 claimed more than 1,000 lives across the country to date.
Receiving a donation of beds by I am for Bulawayo fighting against Covid-19, on behalf of Mat Health and Zimbabwe Christian Alliance, in Bulawayo Tuesday Mguni said the Covid-19 pandemic had crippled the city’s service delivery.
“Today is a very different set up because our Public Relations section is incapacitated to the extent that we are not seeing the usual faces,” lamented Mguni.
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