By Rex Mphisa
DOCTORS deployed at rural district hospitals should regularly visit clinics in their catchment areas to attend to villagers who cannot afford trips to the referral centres.
Rural areas are ordinarily serviced by nurses at clinics but if doctors would visit clinics the delivery of health services will be improved, Matabeleland South Minister for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Albert Nguluvhe said.
“Our doctors must time and again make trips to rural clinics to attend to people in the countryside. It is not all of them who can afford to trips for attention at the district hospitals and if they get outreach service, communities will appreciate, ” he said.
“Like at Beitbridge doctors can take turns to do these outreach services. I can liaise with other politicians and leaders to source fuel because this service will be highly appreciated. They are here and they can hear me. We can find that fuel,” Nguluvhe said.
He was addressing hundreds of villagers gathered at Tshabili for the official opening of a rural clinic initiated by villagers who later got help from different organisations and partners of the Beitbridge Rural District Council.
Nguluvhe said it was pleasing to notice the project was a success because of teamwork.
“Different teams worked together to make this project a success. I am particularly happy because the project was initiated by the people and they also took part in the building providing labour.”
The International Organisation for Migration, Communal Area Management Programme For Indigenous Resources (Campfire) (under the Beitbridge Rural District Council BBRDC), the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and villagers pooled different resources to build Tshabili Clinic.
Tshabili Clinic is about 80 kilometres East of Beitbridge and lies near several informal crossing points used by undocumented migrant workers between South Africa and Zimbabwe hence the interest of the IOM.
Nguluvhe spoke strongly against the drugs and substances scourge that has rocked the country urging villagers to stand up and fight against it.
He asked youths to desist from drugs and find time to make children.
“The youths are always drunk, what time do they make children? Where is the future coming from when they are a,ways drunk,” Nguluvhe asked using the word “kusticka”.
He said his province is in the process of looking for resources to build rehabilitation centres where drug victims will be admitted.
“Beitbridge has a high prevalence of drugs use because of our proximity to the border. I am surprised of late police are arresting people but not destroying the bases,” he asked.
On development Nguluvhe who is also the Member of Parliament for Beitbridge East said politicians must not impose programmes on the people but sit with villagers and hear what they want.
“We must not have top to bottom projects, imposing things on the people but projects initiated by villagers like this clinic. That is why it has been successful.”
He told villagers that Government would sink more boreholes and encouraged them to till land and be productive.
“I remember a famous statement from Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, the late Vice President of Zimbabwe who said “Nxa ufuna imali, phendulela ilizwi and lima”, he said before officially opening the clinic.
Start Rural Outreach Trips: Nguluvhe Pleads With Doctors
By Rex Mphisa
DOCTORS deployed at rural district hospitals should regularly visit clinics in their catchment areas to attend to villagers who cannot afford trips to the referral centres.
Rural areas are ordinarily serviced by nurses at clinics but if doctors would visit clinics the delivery of health services will be improved, Matabeleland South Minister for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Albert Nguluvhe said.
“Our doctors must time and again make trips to rural clinics to attend to people in the countryside. It is not all of them who can afford to trips for attention at the district hospitals and if they get outreach service, communities will appreciate, ” he said.
“Like at Beitbridge doctors can take turns to do these outreach services. I can liaise with other politicians and leaders to source fuel because this service will be highly appreciated. They are here and they can hear me. We can find that fuel,” Nguluvhe said.
He was addressing hundreds of villagers gathered at Tshabili for the official opening of a rural clinic initiated by villagers who later got help from different organisations and partners of the Beitbridge Rural District Council.
Nguluvhe said it was pleasing to notice the project was a success because of teamwork.
“Different teams worked together to make this project a success. I am particularly happy because the project was initiated by the people and they also took part in the building providing labour.”
The International Organisation for Migration, Communal Area Management Programme For Indigenous Resources (Campfire) (under the Beitbridge Rural District Council BBRDC), the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and villagers pooled different resources to build Tshabili Clinic.
Tshabili Clinic is about 80 kilometres East of Beitbridge and lies near several informal crossing points used by undocumented migrant workers between South Africa and Zimbabwe hence the interest of the IOM.
Nguluvhe spoke strongly against the drugs and substances scourge that has rocked the country urging villagers to stand up and fight against it.
He asked youths to desist from drugs and find time to make children.
“The youths are always drunk, what time do they make children? Where is the future coming from when they are a,ways drunk,” Nguluvhe asked using the word “kusticka”.
He said his province is in the process of looking for resources to build rehabilitation centres where drug victims will be admitted.
“Beitbridge has a high prevalence of drugs use because of our proximity to the border. I am surprised of late police are arresting people but not destroying the bases,” he asked.
On development Nguluvhe who is also the Member of Parliament for Beitbridge East said politicians must not impose programmes on the people but sit with villagers and hear what they want.
“We must not have top to bottom projects, imposing things on the people but projects initiated by villagers like this clinic. That is why it has been successful.”
He told villagers that Government would sink more boreholes and encouraged them to till land and be productive.
“I remember a famous statement from Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, the late Vice President of Zimbabwe who said “Nxa ufuna imali, phendulela ilizwi and lima”, he said before officially opening the clinic.