"Sally Mugabe Central Hospital Sometimes Goes For Days Without Water" - Report

Sally Mugabe Central Hospital, formerly Harare Hospital, is facing a huge water crisis and sometimes goes for days without tap or even borehole water, according to NewZimbabwe.com.

Patients at the country’s second-largest referral hospital said they sometimes get water from the doctors’ residences. Said one woman whose child is admitted to the institution named after the wife of the late former president Robert Mugabe:

Today (Saturday 25 September 2022) we have water, but we sometimes go for several days without supplies.

I have been around for some time with my child who is admitted here and the situation is not good.

We go for days without water; not even borehole water, and we do not know what the problem is.

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Once in a while we get water from the doctors’ residences.

Patients who are able walk have to go to get themselves water from the doctors’ residence.

Harare Central Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Christopher Pasi, said he was not sure about the situation on the ground since he is currently out of the country. He told NewZimbabwe.com:

Anyways, the water challenge has always been there. It’s a perennial issue and sometimes it is not about us but the Harare City Council.

One of the doctors confirmed that patients were often provided buckets to fetch their own water. 

The hospital has been grappling with other various challenges, including the shortage of equipment and medicines.

Healthcare workers have also gone on strike this year, protesting the erosion of their salaries by hyperinflation and the fall in the value of the Zimbabwe dollar.

Challenges in local health institutions have forced hundreds of health caregivers to go abroad in search of better salaries and working conditions.

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