Zimbabwe: Clinic Gets Us$27 000 for Infrastructure
Zimbabwe: Clinic Gets Us$27 000 for Infrastructure
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Senior Health Reporter
Bangure Clinic in Buhera district has received over US$27 000 in the last seven years to rehabilitate its facilities under a results-based financing programme.
The programme, funded by Crown Agents, is supported by the Health Development Fund covering 830 rural facilities across the country.
Since 2013, the programme has provided funding for the construction of a comfortable mothers’ shelter, repair of two nurses’ houses, installation of a water pump and a solar lighting system at Bangure Clinic.
Primary care nurse at the clinic, Sister Farirai Masendu, said the programme had contributed to a change in the community’s approach to development of the health care system.
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