INGUTSHENI Central Hospital authorities have welcomed donations towards improving the institution’s water supply amid revelations that the institution needs over US$127 000 for the water provision facilities.
Recent reports revealed how the institution has been battling water challenges for years, therefore, severely crippling its operations.
Although the hospital has managed to put water tanks in every ward, which they use when their taps run dry, it is still in need of a water treatment plant which will totally erase the current water challenges.
The water treatment plant, which was initially pegged at US$17 000 at the beginning of the year, was, however, revised upwards to US$127 000 after a proper assessment was conducted.
“Zimbabwe National Water Authority has come on board to assess our situation and they actually recommended that we need to get an extra borehole on top of the eight we already have so that we can have adequate water for all our patients,” Ingutsheni Hospital chief medical officer Nemache Mawere said.
“It’s quite a very huge figure, but that’s the proper cost. It was US$17 000 before, but now, after proper analysis, that is the total cost (US$127 000) to put a proper water treatment plant, which is going to remove the calcium and other impurities from the water and be able to supply the whole hospital.”
Mawere invited well-wishers to donate for the treatment plant.
“We are still going to look for donors, what we have done is to put it in our annual procurement plan,” he said.
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“So hopefully we will put it in our budget, but next year, when the government budget comes through, it will be put in our public sector investment projects for the government.”
Meanwhile, the institution was one of the beneficiaries of the Old Mutual Zimbabwe annual Winter Warmer Expo campaign, where it got 250 blankets for its patients.
Mpilo Central, Gwanda Provincial and Plumtree District hospital are also benefiting from the campaign.
