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MARCH 2018 VOLIME 2 ISSUE 9

ARIRENYATWA

NEWSLETTER Pwww.parihosp.org

PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED B Y THE PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

PGH PRO-AM GOLF TOURNAMENT

IN THE ISSUE

Customer Care Training for the hospital security

Game on for PGH F.C

Staff News

PGH Steps-up cancer fight

Educational tour for school pupils

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Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals steps up cancer

fight…

…As it hosts golf tournament to fundraise for patients

Cancer has become one of the

leading causes of death in Zimba-

bwe. Be that as it may, a number

of factors have hindered the acces-

sibility to treatment. To help the

fight against cancer, Parirenyatwa

Group of Hospitals hosted a golf

tournament at Royal Harare Golf

Club on the 2nd of March 2018, to

fundraise for indigent cancer pa-

tients.

Many corporates supported this

event and committed their re-

sources towards this noble cause.

The organizations who participat-

ed at the tournament and made do-

nations include, CBZ Holdings,

Premier Services Medical Invest-

ments, Medrite, Traffic Safety

Council of Zimbabwe, Trifour

Health, ZB Holdings, Liquid Tele-

com, New Avakash, Ecocash,

Powertel, Moonlight, Netone,

VARICHEM, National Aids

Council, Margolis, AGRIBANK,

MBCA Bank.

The money generated from the

event is meant to be channelled

towards ensuring initial treatment

of cancer patients while they or-

ganise funds for their treatment.

The Radiotherapy Centre at

Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals

is the leading specialised unit in

Zimbabwe where treatment of all

cancers is done using radiothera-

py, chemotherapy and a number

of other forms of modern treat-

ment.

It is also where coordination of

care for cancer patients

incorporates various specialties to

give the patients the benefit of

multidisciplinary high-level care

for their disease.

Mpilo Central Hospital in Bula-

wayo is the only other institution

in the public health sector that

can offer the same service.

These centres face many

challenges due to limited funding

and lack of awareness of cancer.

This is because cancer is a unique

health challenge that requires

unique solutions. Challenges in-

clude the very limited availability

of chemotherapy drugs, unavaila-

bility of space to prepare and give

these essential drugs at the Radio-

therapy Centre.

The way chemotherapy is prepared

and given is very much different

from many other drugs and must

be done in areas meant for that

purpose only.

There is need at the Radiotherapy

Centre to modernize this aspect of

care-giving and provide the neces-

sary space that has all the safety

features and comfort to benefit

both staff and patients.

Radiotherapy is a safe and proven

cancer treatment that is needed in

at least 60% of all cancers in the

developed world. This figure is

currently higher in low income

countries where cancer screening

still has a low uptake and patients.

present with advanced disease. It

is estimated that up to..to page2..

Dr Ntokozo Ndlovu

Consultant Oncologist and Head of Radiotherapy Centre

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..from page1...80% of cancer cas-

es in Zimbabwe may need radio-

therapy as part of their treatment.

The Radiotherapy Centre has the

capacity to treat this number since

the Government of Zimbabwe re-

cently acquired state of the art ra-

diotherapy equipment for both

public centres. The equipment

however needs to be maintained in

optimum condition through regu-

lar servicing and software up-

grades.

There is need for support for pa-

tients to access other services that

are complimentary to standard

cancer therapies in the form of la-

boratory, imaging, supportive

drugs, blood transfusion, coun-

selling and information services.

The Parirenyatwa Group of Hos-

pitals Radiotherapy Centre serves

a wide catchment area. Most pa-

tients treated there have to travel

long distances. They have to stay

for several weeks in town to re-

ceive treatment, even if they are

not admitted in hospital. Whilst

this problem needs to be ad-

dressed comprehensively through

decentralisation of cancer ser-

vices, the most appropriate short-

term measure would be that of

providing accommodation for the

duration of treatment.

Most cancer patients do not have

the financial capacity to afford

treatment. The medication taken

by cancer patients is expensive,

while most of it is taken on a daily

basis. This medication includes

hypertensives, iron supplements,

oral hypoglycaemics, calcium sup-

plements, erythropoietin stimulat-

ing agents.

It is in light of the above men-

tioned challenges that Parirenyat-

wa Group of Hospitals has recog-

nised the need to assist indigent

patients with treatment for the first

few sessions. This would give

them the time to organise their

finances while being treated at the

institution.

CCOSA Students visit Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Hospital and

donate fruits to patients in commemoration of Women’s day

A CCOSA student hands over fruits to a patient at MNMH Students from Dzivarasekwa 1 High school tour the hospital’s lab

Ms T Gurupira addresses students touring the PGH Main Pharmacy

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2018 GOLF Tournament in pictures

Mr T. Zigora (Right) PGH Group Chief Executive

and Sean Crocker, 2018 Professionals Champion

Dr T. Bwakura representing the Clinical Director for Pariren-

yatwa Group of Hospitals at the tournament

C. Bafana, Amateurs winner for the 2018 PRO-AM Golf

Tournament receiving her award

Royal Harare Golf Club venue for the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals 2018

PRO– AM Golf Tournament

L. Dhire, PGH Public Relations Officer, enjoying the

golf experience at Royal Harare Golf Club

Guest of Honour, Dr Moris Mpofu (second from left) posing for a

photo after making a donation of $5000 to PGH.

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MARCH 2018 VOLIME 2: ISSUE 9

PGH security personnel undergo Customer Care

Training

A total of 160 Parirenyatwa

Group of Hospitals security per-

sonnel underwent customer care

training from the 26th of Febru-

ary to the 2nd of March as the

hospital continues to make ef-

forts to improve and maintain

standard health service delivery.

The workshop is done annually

to refresh the staff members on

customer care.

Security personnel at the hospi-

tal are a key component of the

customer care matrix as they

provide information to clients,

give directions to clients and

conduct searches on the same

clients. They are usually located

at the hospital’s entry and exit

points and also control queues,

thus, they interact with clients

quite extensively.

Earlier on, doctors and nurses

had just completed their work-

shop on customer care. A lot of

improvement has been noted in

areas such as Accident and

Emergency Department, where

doctors and nurses are doing

everything possible to reduce

patient waiting times.

Other issues covered during the

workshop included Infection

Prevention and Control, fire-

fighting, open forum, personal

service, cash point policy, en-

trance and exit procedure and

foot drill among other topics.

With an average of 60 and 45

officers deployed during day

and night respectively, the se-

curity personnel at the hospital

is one of the departments that

interact the most with the pub-

lic.

Asked about his views on the

workshop, Mr Bandura, the

Chief Security Officer, was

pleased with the issues dis-

cussed and expressed his de-

light over support by other de-

partments who assisted in facil-

itating at the workshop.

“The workshop was a success,

we are grateful to the Public

Relations and the Infection Con-

trol Departments for their help

in equipping our team with the

necessary skills to carry out

their duties effectively.

“We managed to have present,

all security persons, 160 of them

attended so we expect the de-

partment as a whole to be posi-

tively transformed by such an

initiative”, he said.

The training was coincidentally carried out two weeks after a customer satisfaction survey was carried out by Citizens Health Watch. The independent evaluator’s report pointed out that the hospital’s security were doing very well in terms of cus-tomer care, averaging 85% satis-faction rating at the Casualty and Out Patients Departments.

By Mncedisi Khupe

Security officers attending the Customer Care Workshop at Adlum House

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STAFF NEWS Hospitals on the 6th of October 1994 as a junior

General Nurse working at the Out Patients

Department. She was moved to the Accident

and Emergency Department for six years. She

was promoted on 2 February 2002 to become

Sister-in-Charge and after two years she was

transferred to C8 Medical Ward.

From 2006 to 2007, Matron Zendera trained as

an Ophthalmic Nurse at Parirenyatwa School of

Nursing and in 2011 she acquired a Diploma in

Nursing Administration. She was promoted to

Matron 111 in 2015 working at Sekuru Kaguvi

Eye Hospital. In October 2017, she was tasked

to work as an Assistant Matron in the Principal

Nursing Officer’s office. With effect from 5

March she was promoted to Senior Nursing Of-

ficer II.

Miriam Zendera

Matron Zendera joined Parirenyatwa Group of

Matron Mercy Muwi joined Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals

on 4 September 1994. She trained as a midwife at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals School of

Midwifery.

In 2005 Matron Muwi was promoted to Sister-in-Charge. She was promoted to become Matron

111 with effect from the 5th of March 2018. She is now the Infection Prevention and Control

Matron.

Mercy Muwi

Josephine Gilda Dodzo

Sister Josephine G. Dodzo joined Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals

as a General Nurse on the 7th of November 2011. In 2015, Sister Dodzo trained as a midwife.

She further specialised as a

paediatric nurse in 2017. She also holds a certificate in Sexual Reproductive Health and another

one in Computers. Sister Dodzo was promoted to Sister-in-Charge with effect from 5 March 2018.

She is stationed at Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Hospital.

Lindsay Munjoma

Sister Lindsay Munjoma joined Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals on the 11th of January 2010 as a General Nurse. He specialised in Intensive and Coronary Care Nursing. Sister Munjoma holds a BSC Honours Nursing Education degree.

He was appointed acting Sister-in-Charge for A4 Intensive Care Unit from September 2017 to March 2018. Sister Munjoma was promoted to Intensive and Coronary Care Sister-in-Charge with effect from 5 March 2018. He is in charge of B7 Intensive Care Unit.

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By Vanacio Ben

Following a great season of

football, PGH F.C prepares

for the communications

league set to commence

from the 17th of March.

Ambitious PGH F. C who

finished last season on top

form, have thrown in their

hat into the ring to

challenge defending

champions Tendo F. C to

play for the title this

season. So far they have

played against Division 2

sides and were victors in

all three consecutive

games they played.

‘This is our year 2018,

Parirenyatwa F. C have the

desire to win the

Communications League

this year,’ said the PGH

F.C coach.

They have strengthened the

team as other PGH F.C

players who were playing

for Dandaro last season are

back home.

This year it’s all eyes on

Parirenyatwa F.C 2018

owing to the support from

PGH F.C fans who are

coming in numbers and the

moral is very high.

PARIRENYATWA HOSPITAL F.C PREPS FOR THE

COMMUNICATION LEAGUE 2018

Parirenyatwa Football Club