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Private pharmacy for Mpilo Hospital
13 Mar 2014 at 14:48hrs | Views
Mpilo Central Hospital has invited bids from reputable service providers to operate a private pharmacy within the hospital premises amid reports the health institution's chemist is in dire need of drugs and surgical consumables for its patients.
The tender, flighted in Thursday's press, also invited bids for short term contracts to supply sutures, cannulas, catheters, surgical gloves, latex gloves, syringes, X-Ray consumables, cotton wool, gauze roll, fluids (normal saline, ringers lactate solution, half DD), halothane and sodium hypochlorite solution.
Prospective applicants were advised to deposit their bids by March 31, with a site visit scheduled for next Tuesday.
In an interview with The Zimbabwe Mail Thursday, Mpilo Central Hospital's clinical director, Dr Wedu Ndebele, said the hospital was coming up with ways to alleviate its perpetual pharmaceutical supply problem.
"We are being innovative in dealing with, and addressing our situation. If you are in Zimbabwe, it means you know the situation very well. If I had lost hope in getting assistance from ,government, I would not be here, but I do not want to comment on (what) government (is doing)," he said.
Since last year, the biggest referral hospital in Matabeleland has been hit by a drug and equipment shortage that forced it to ask patients to source own drugs and equipment prescribed to by doctors from the city's private pharmacies.
Despite promises by the country's leadership to speed up the process of rehabilitating the country's health institutions, not much has been done, with the Treasury constantly disbursing less than the allocated funds to hospitals such as Mpilo, among others.
In 2012, the hospital only received $1,1 million out of the $4,1m the Treasury had allocated.
In 2011, only $1m was disbursed to the facility out of the $4,4m allocated for Mpilo in the national budget. At the time, Mpilo required about $12m to meet its obligations.
The tender, flighted in Thursday's press, also invited bids for short term contracts to supply sutures, cannulas, catheters, surgical gloves, latex gloves, syringes, X-Ray consumables, cotton wool, gauze roll, fluids (normal saline, ringers lactate solution, half DD), halothane and sodium hypochlorite solution.
Prospective applicants were advised to deposit their bids by March 31, with a site visit scheduled for next Tuesday.
In an interview with The Zimbabwe Mail Thursday, Mpilo Central Hospital's clinical director, Dr Wedu Ndebele, said the hospital was coming up with ways to alleviate its perpetual pharmaceutical supply problem.
"We are being innovative in dealing with, and addressing our situation. If you are in Zimbabwe, it means you know the situation very well. If I had lost hope in getting assistance from ,government, I would not be here, but I do not want to comment on (what) government (is doing)," he said.
Since last year, the biggest referral hospital in Matabeleland has been hit by a drug and equipment shortage that forced it to ask patients to source own drugs and equipment prescribed to by doctors from the city's private pharmacies.
Despite promises by the country's leadership to speed up the process of rehabilitating the country's health institutions, not much has been done, with the Treasury constantly disbursing less than the allocated funds to hospitals such as Mpilo, among others.
In 2012, the hospital only received $1,1 million out of the $4,1m the Treasury had allocated.
In 2011, only $1m was disbursed to the facility out of the $4,4m allocated for Mpilo in the national budget. At the time, Mpilo required about $12m to meet its obligations.
Source - zimmail
