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Masvingo City Council run Runyararo West Clinic is set to be opening its doors to patients during the first week of June 2022, Town Clerk Engineer Edward Mukaratirwa has confirmed.
The clinic was awaiting clearance from relevant authority for it to open its doors to the public as was highlighted during a full council meeting on March 28, 2022.
In an interview with TellZim News on May 17, 2022 Engineer Mukaratirwa said all is set for the health centre to open as currently they are doing the final touches on the facility while at the same time recruiting staff that will be working at the clinic.
“The relevant authority has already approved the opening of the clinic but right now we are in the process of recruiting workers. We are almost done so expect the clinic to be functional first week of June,” said Eng Mukaratirwa.
The clinic is going to offer different health services like mental health, adolescence and sexual reproductive health care, HIV testing, family planning, self help groups, Sexual Transmitted Infection (STI) screening and treatment among others and the working days and hours will be from Monday to Friday 8am to 4:30pm.
Health Service director Suzanne Hazel Madamombe confirmed that the clinic is going to offer different types of services including mental health care centre and adolescence and Sexual Reproductive Health Centre.
“We have noted that in the community there are more cases that are related to mental health, so we have set up a department that will be dealing with metal health issues and also we have a department of adolescence and sexual reproductive health centre where we are going be having specialist nurses who will be dealing with adolescence health specifically,” said Madamombe.
The much-awaited opening will offer relief to residents from the city’s western suburbs like Runyararo West and Victoria Range among others who endure the pain of travelling long distances to access health care services.
