The ManicaPost
Tendai Gukutikwa Post Correspondent
MUTARE business community is giving a dilapidated Florida Council Clinic a major facelift which is meant to bring back the confidence of both patients and staff at the facility.
Spearheading the project but with various partners from the business community are the Mharadzi couple — Thomas and Molly of Kiddies’ World Pre-School in Hospital Hill. The project is in its final stages and is expected to be completed by end of August.
Mr Mharadzi urged the business community and Mutare community at large to embrace development projects in their communities as part of efforts to give back to the same communities.
Some of the work being done at the clinic include renovating the ceilings, water facilities, painting the buildings, fencing the clinic, repairing the roofs and the separation of the out patients department.
“The clinic has been operating with one out-patients department large room that catered for both pregnant women and babies but through this project, there will be separation of those departments. Babies will be served from their own department while pregnant mothers will be in their own room,” said Mr Mharadzi.
He said the donation is part of the pre-school’s initiative where it gives back to the community and that this was part of a long-term relationship between their pre-school and the Mutare community.
He further stated that it was everyone’s responsibility to ensure that the community was not lacking in any way.
Florida Council Clinic’s Sister-in-Charge Temba Kuyangepi said they were overjoyed with the renovations since the clinic was in bad shape.
She said the infrastructure at the Florida Council Clinic had been crippled and the move by the pre-school would go a long way in boosting service delivery in the community.
“I encourage people from other communities to follow these footsteps and better their own communities and not wait for donors from other areas to come and help them.
‘‘The old state that the clinic was in was hard to work in but because of the renovations, we will provide our state-of-the-art service delivery happily,” she said.
Partners to the project include Mutare City Council, Tinty’s Hardware, Pine Products, Harane Fencing Company, Carpenters Workshop, Mutare Garment, Rotary Club and Rotarians, Hardware Agencies, Eastern Maintenance Service, Mr Misheck Mugadza, Mr James and parents at Kiddies World Pre-School.
