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Parirenyatwa Hospital Conducts 12 Successful Open-Heart Surgeries In Two Months

Kuda Pembere

Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals has to date successfully operated on 12 patients who required open heart surgeries with the team of specialists as well as the convalescents encouraging others to be fearless to get this treatment. By Kuda Pembere The Hospital is the only health facility in Zimbabwe performing these open-heart surgeries. Speaking on Wednesday at a press conference, PGH chief medical officer Dr Aspect Maunganidze described the resumption of open heart surgeries in the country as painful. It has been two months of surgeries from 22 June when we…

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Govt to decentralise Open Heart Surgeries

Kuda Pembere

GOVERNMENT will decentralize the provision of open-heart surgeries in the country with the next facility targeted being Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo. By Kuda Pembere Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantine Chiwenga said this on the sidelines of a tour of Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals which resumed the open-heart surgery procedures. PGH is at the moment the only health facility in the country doing this procedure. The first patient to have this procedure performed on is a 29-year-old Ms Blessing Bonda who was diagnosed as…

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32 bodies up for pauper’s burial if unclaimed at Parirenyatwa Hospital

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Parirenyatwa Group of Hospital is calling on relatives or family members to claim bodies of their deceased which have been at the Hospital’s mortuary between March and October 2022. By Staff Reporter According to the Hospital, 32 bodies are yet to be claimed. “The following bodies have been unclaimed in the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals mortuary from 10 March 2022 to 03 October 2022. “The hospital is requesting relatives or family members of the dearly deceased persons to come forward and claim the bodies and give them a decent burial,”…

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#BREAKING: Midwives Crises Hits Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Unit

Michael Gwarisa

MBUYA Nehanda Maternity division, one of Zimbabwe’s largest maternity units located at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, is battling serious shortages of skilled midwives amidst indications that the facility recently experienced an incident whereby only one midwife ended up attending to at least 26 pregnant women. By Michael Gwarisa A visit by this publication to the facility in on Friday, 29 October, 2021 revealed that only one midwife was on duty for several hours while at least 26 women waited to be attended. Some of the women who were visibly in…

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PCD Diagnostics Gives Zim Hospitals Jaundice Management Machines

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THREE Zimbabwean hospitals have received phototherapy equipment used for jaundice management from Pharmaceutical and Chemical Distributors (PCD) Diagnostics representing Drager with Harare Central Hospital getting two. By Kudakwashe Pembere Drager is a German company that specializes mostly in thermoregulations and jaundice management, anesthesia workstations, medical gas management systems, ventilation and respiratory monitoring as well as medical lights and video systems. Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, Mpilo Hospital and Chinhoyi Provincial Hospitals will be given the remainder. Health Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo officiating the handover ceremony of the equipment and medicines from…

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Create Cancer Levy Now- Gvt Told

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THERE is need to create a Cancer Levy to fund for treatment of cancer patients in the country, medical doctors have said.   By Kudakwashe Pembere Modelled like the AIDS levy, the fund will help cancer patients access affordable treatment.This came out during a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee On Gender Cancer Assessment tour around Harare’s hospitals. Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals Consultant Oncologist Dr Anna Mary Nyakabau told parliamentarians that patients were bearing the burden of expensive cancer treatment on their own. “Most of the patients we treat for cancer use money…

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