Calvin Manika
THE Rotary Club of Hwange has donated various textbooks on medicine worth thousands of dollars to the Hwange School of Nursing in a move meant to boost provision of quality healthcare.
The books include various subjects such as Beginners in Nursing, Pharmacology, Human Anatomy, Psychology and Haematology, among others.
Presenting the donation, Rotary Club of Hwange president Zack Mahupete said the move was meant to boost the institution’s library and knowledge base to ensure top-notch graduates who will use their expertise to develop communities.
“The donation is made up of brand-new medical books, which we got from our partners in America. It came in as a container worth over a million dollars. We then put them into their respective categories and donated to universities that do medical trainings and training hospitals.
“In Matabeleland and Bulawayo, all 19 training medical hospitals are getting books too. As Rotary Club of Hwange, health is one of our focus area and as we endeavour for health for all we decided to make this donation,” said Mahupete.
“We recently put up a borehole at Dampa Secondary School while in Lupote we also established an irrigation that supports the primary school so that children don’t stop attending school because of hunger.”
The Rotaractors, the juniors, also mobilised funds and bought sanitary pads for girls in rural areas. “We also support children with albinism through purchasing special lotions for them as well as attending to issues of sight that affect some of them by taking them to opticians,” said Mahupete.
Receiving the donation on behalf of the school, the acting principal, Joshua Munsaka, said the books will not only benefit students but the whole institution hence enhancing access and provision of healthcare in the district.
“On behalf of the School of Nursing I want to thank the Rotary Club for their kind gesture of assisting us with a donation of books. It is actually good that they have identified us; these books will go a long way in assisting the students and our staff as this is a teaching hospital,” said Munsaka.
“We have all the cadres that are there in healthcare; nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, pharmacists, radiographers, dental therapists, lab scientists and public health specialists. All these people benefit from this library since it is the only one available within the hospital premises and will be a reference resource centre for those that want to do their studies or refer for any cases they would want to conduct researches.
“To us it is a blessing and gift we cherish. The majority of books are nursing books with samples on medicines, hematology, orthopedics, radiology – it’s a spectrum of books. The thing about this is that the nursing books cover from the first year to those studying for a PhD.”
