Hwange, 07 June, 2021 / 2:32 pm (ACI Africa).
Missionary Daughters of Calvary (MDC) Sisters have facilitated the rebuilding of Tshongokwe Mission Hospital in Zimbabwe’s Hwange Diocese in a new location after it was left in ruins following the “war of liberation,” Catholic Church News Zimbabwe has reported.
The Monday, June 7 report indicates that the Zimbabwean Catholic Diocese, which was reportedly hit hard by post war calamities, has been suffering great ordeal from lack of basic infrastructure, quality education and healthcare facilities with people travelling up to 60 kilometers to St. Luke Lupale for medical attention.
MDC Sisters had been engaging the local community, in meetings, on possible income generating activities. During one of those meetings, local leaders proposed the setting up of a health facility to save the residents the long travel to St. Luke.
“That is when our objective changed to provision of health services after realizing the needs of the local community,” Sr. Cecilia Mahlangu who is in charge of the hospital construction has been quoted as saying, and adding, “We then approached the Ministry of Health and Child Care who instructed us to build a hospital instead of a clinic since there is no referral hospital in the area.”
The referral hospital, which is still under construction, has been set 22 kilometers from the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway and will serve about eleven clinics and a population of 6,000 people from Sobendle, Mutshekwa, Tshongokwe, Maqaqeni, Buyu, Mateteni, Ngombane, Nganunu, Japiwa, Tiki and Mswibilili villages.
