BINDURA Mayor, Brian Kembo says that there is need to enhance and expand health care
facilities in the town to ensure that the main hospital does not end up being overwhelmed
with patients.
Mayor Kembo said that the health of the town was the responsibility of the city therefore
health facilities like Chipadze and Chiwaridzo clinics must be upgraded and modernised.
He also said that most patients, who were being referred to Bindura Provincial Hospital could
be treated at council clinics only if there were better health care facilities and if they were
adequately staffed.
“We have to establish our more modernised health care institutions,” said Kembo.
“It is everyone’s duty to ensure that we improve our health care system in Bindura and
province. Our council clinics are adequately staffed, however, our patients are encountering
challenges of not getting enough medicines sometimes and we end up referring them to
private hospitals.”
The council was looking for a place to construct a poly clinic to ensure that patients do not
flood Bindura Provincial Hospital. Health, said the Mayor, was critical for a city to develop,
so Bindura community should have enough clinics.