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Mpilo Cancer Treatment Machines Non-functional Since 2021

8 months agoWed, 15 May 2024 12:22:29 GMT
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Mpilo Cancer Treatment Machines Non-functional Since 2021

Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo lacks radiation treatment for cancer patients, with the last treatment occurring in 2021 due to the breakdown of radiotherapy and mammography machines.

As reported by CITE, the situation has been exacerbated by a shortage of local expertise and an unreliable power supply.

Since the breakdown of the radiotherapy and mammography machines at Mpilo, most of the radiographers left, leaving only two. Without proper power management, the machines cannot function.

In 2021, Mpilo Hospital installed a US$100,000 Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) system for the radiotherapy unit.

However, according to the hospital’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Narcisius Dzvanga, engineers said that the current UPS is too powerful for the machines. He said:

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The engineers can only service the machines once we replace the UPS. They claim the current one is unnecessarily large, but we received it in that state. It’s not up to us to adjust it.

During a tour of the radiotherapy department by the Parliamentary Committee on Health and Child Care on Monday, it emerged that the CT scan has been out of service since October 2023 due to a software issue requiring German engineers. Local attempts to resolve the problem have been unsuccessful.

Clinical Director Professor Solwayo Ngwenya told the Parliamentary Committee that the last time Mpilo performed radiation treatment was in 2021. He said:

These machines are expensive. They can’t simply be discarded. The machines stopped working three years ago, in 2021. As acting CMO, I wrote a letter to the Ministry [of Health and Childcare]. They are aware.

Oncologist Dr.Tatenda Chingozoh said power fluctuations can damage the machines. She said:

Power surges damage these delicate machines. Even minor faults prevent us from administering radiation treatment, which can be life-saving. Patients are forced to seek treatment at private facilities.

Without the radiotherapy machines, the radiotherapy cannot use the CT scan as it works in conjunction with the machines.

There are three CT scanners in the government system, one at the main Mpilo hospital, another at UBH and then we have the oncology dedicated one.

The members of the Parliamentary Committee on Health and Child Care asked why the hospital couldn’t switch to alternative power sources.

In response, Operations Director Joe Charangwa explained that regardless of the power source, it must be routed through the UPS to ensure consistent electricity. Said Charangwa:

Even solar power requires a UPS to prevent surges. The UPS stabilises and protects the main machine, whether powered by ZESA or solar.

Chingozoh said with non-functional machines, the remaining staff are undergoing training to maintain their skills. She said:

We offer limited alternative treatments due to staff shortages caused by emigration. Out of the eight radiographers we had when the machines were functional, only two remain.

We have a high staff turnover. Even our physicist is new. All the previous physicists left the country. We try to keep staff trained.

Currently, our physicist is attending a course in Nigeria. Next week, there’s another training in Cape Town.

The Mpilo CMO said that cancer patients are forced to seek treatment at the private Oncocare facility in Newlands, as Parirenyatwa Hospital faces similar challenges.

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60 Comments

Khan · 8 months ago
@ 🏋️🕺 just because you can read something on a bumper sticker it doesn't make it true...Most Westerns are morbidly overweight and unhealthy yet their economies are functional due to many centuries benefitting off the sweat of unpaid illegal migrants, slave labour and gains of colonialism... Heck they even made a world cup trophy out of looted gold smh ... Bulwark of People United and Free
Khan · 8 months ago
@ exercise all my mental faculties are in check it is you who needs a mental examination or worse a lobotomy
saint · 8 months ago
I hate zanupf
Khan · 8 months ago
The same as Zim things are improving only blinkered opposition supporters cannot see that ..Zim is a young nation on the comeup so it is only fair it be judged according to that...44 years after independence America was nowhere near the hegemonic nation it is today so please be patient. .. Which corruption are you on about there is a whole commission which deals with corruption and you are free to go and spew your allegations there...We are improving too no thanks to the great Satan and her allies....The state literally puts people first hence the motto no1 and no place left behind only certain malcontents resist government aid instead they would rather beg for salvation from the Western devils... Bulwark of People United and Free
⛹️🏋️🤾 · 8 months ago
blaz mukakwana munobvei?
SC · 8 months ago
Khan there's nothing unpatriotic by wishing a resourceful Zimbabwe to be like other better countries out there, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, who are thriving to be better in terms of everything. There's nothing unpatriotic by wishing corrupt officials gone since they do not make progress in any way. You talk if Iran, the only issue with Iran and the US that Iran as a state sees as a stumbling block is it's nuclear project but otherwise in terms of industry and commerce under those challenges they are improving chief. Iran has worser embargoes than Zim but at the end of the day, they are patriotic and selfless. The state puts it's people first and thrive for better life
Khan · 8 months ago
I do not argue with people that are too cowardly to put up their own username... Secondly you want to school me on patriotism when you, yourself don't even know what it is... Jingoism really???
Khan · 8 months ago
@ Antman Botswana was never a colony but it was a protectorate there is a difference... Botswana is not all that I have been there and can tell you outside of Gabs and Francistown the whole place is the drizzling piss...
Khan · 8 months ago
@ Antman I did not call you f00lish please miss me with that victim complex...The economy cannot all rise at the same time especially in the third world which has been decimated by centuries of oppression by the imperial masters...The strategies used by America and her allies cannot be used today unless you want Zim to start using slave labour and colonialism to develop....The government is using the income tax wisely despite the presence of multiple tax dodgers within the country that prefer to stay home and whine rather than actively look for employment...😂😂 me thinking negatively give your head a wobble my guy am the most positive thinking guy on this platform...There are proper ways to air your "challenge" rather than come with perceived knowledge derived from anti government think tanks who get paid to spew nonsense.... Bulwark of People United and Free
Antman · 8 months ago
@Khan. As I said before stop assuming and comment reasonably. Look at Botswana for instance. They were colonized just like us but they managed to equally revamp all economic sectors without using dkave labour.
Antman · 8 months ago
@Khan if you were an independent thinker perhaps you were going to spew something reasonable all you can think of is anti government and you slotting in outside factors that font even have anything to do with failure of our economy. That ideology of blaming other countries will always maje you think we're being sabotaged. There is a possibility that all that we have was donated from the same countries you're lambastig. ..........
Leave it · 8 months ago
@Antman pliz leave khan hapana chaungataure naye akanzwisisa since arimunhu anemari
Khan · 8 months ago
@ secondary marvel character Antman Learn to stand as an individual please just say you can't afford to travel and you one of those people that hate the government yet you want it to provide for you like some f00lish sugar daddy....The budgets are okay and the majority of funding goes to the essential sectors of the economy such as tourism and mining..I am not defending failure am a realist and can appreciate the modern world for what it is now...Most people even in developed countries travel to other countries which have geared their economies into health destinations such as India or Canada.. If government hospitals are not up to your perceived standards why don't you go to a private one
Antman · 8 months ago
@Khan If only you can stand as an individual I would have taken your opinion however you use olurals also
Antman · 8 months ago
Well I use private hospital @Khan thats Why I did not mention anything to do with me using private hospitals. Well yhe same government is using Income tax from us so it should use our taxes reasonably. I dont hate government but Im challenging it and its failures. Well modernization is lifting all sectors of the economy at one go or st similar pace. Whsts the point of having a middle or upper class economy without modern hospitals, modern railway line, vast and always available electricity, marvelous road network country wide, nice and competent government schools, functional government services, etc.... Well problem Im arguing with someone who things negatively. Im just arguing your points Khan call me f0olish or stup!p but truth us deep down you know what were you're getting lost.
Antman · 8 months ago
@Khan. Sometimes its better not to air your view. Some of us cant even afford moving intercity them you suggest cross borders for health care due to our failing government. I beg to differ the same oomph and energy that is used when people are looting should be used to gather resources to revive health sector that they destroyed. We have budgets for a reason. Finance minister should makesure that health care is revived. Why defend failure. Failure is failure. Trust me if your relative or friend gets admitted to Pari, Mpilo or UBH you will surely get stressed cause they have a tendency of making issues worse. May we put our heads together as Zimbabweans and restore Zimbabwe and make it better thst any African country especially on health and other crucial economic fields.
Khan · 8 months ago
@ baba Jukwa I am just saying that the government should prioritize other ministries instead of this non performing one...The majority of the population can afford to go to other countries for treatment... Bulwark of People United and Free
baba jukwa · 8 months ago
@ Khan if you say other countries have a terrible health system like us, what do you mean?. are you saying our government is copying the terrible things instead of the good.
🤨🤨🤨 · 8 months ago
maita basa nekutuka fake masigede uyo,coz ini handinyadzisire ndoziva ndiri munhu mkuru,l never even lisd about my age,yasekuru yakandikwanira,zivai kt muktaura na fake masigede,for the mean time ndongoverenga hangu news ,ndipe mkana **** iro ririkuzviti masigede
tt · 8 months ago
hoo
Khan · 8 months ago
@ jolly Roger ie pirate flag guy So many developed countries have terrible health systems yet they don't throw a fuss like Zimbos...It has now become fashionable for people to seek healthcare in other countries ie India and Canada...Like I said Zimbabwe is still on the rise we are learning from yesteryear mistakes like trusting the IMF and the great Satan which caused our economy to crumble that's why we are engaging with other countries who do not require regime change inorder to facilitate deals....The Health ministry does not generate anything to the fiscus so it has to receive less funding just like the ministry of education ask any decent economist and they will tell you ...There are other more productive ministries that should get more funding than the health ministry.... Bulwark of People United and Free
Hezvo · 8 months ago
Health sector is now down to its knees because they are other prioroties and its not the only ministry mmmm if it is lyk this vanhu topera kufa
Director X · 8 months ago
They condemn what they don't understand, just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean kuti m being unpatriotic Government kna ichitadza ikutadza we should never justify failure
Khan · 8 months ago
@ Mburu it is because there are other priorities...The Ministry of health is not the only ministry in Zim
🏋️🕺⛹️ · 8 months ago
lyk really? me thoughts a healthy nation is a wealthy nation, what could be more important than the health of the citizenry **** @$$ m'fuka
Khan · 8 months ago
Just because you read something on a bumper sticker doesn't make it true
Mburu · 8 months ago
Why are you waiting for Iran while we can buy on our own , this is totally no nse nse
How I wish I was a radiographer · 8 months ago
I'm forty something now, but growing up I had this dream of joining medical physics, especially dealing with X rays and all other machines that involve radiotherapy, infact my dream was to become an engineer in that medical department, however, I did my school to merely A levels sciences but did not finish as fees was hectic for my folks to raise at the time of economical doldrums,, I got involved myself as a factory labourer where I still got exposed to the type of X ray machinery that detected the internal package defects but the machine constantly broke down and the company would hire an engineer from the then yugoslavia to do services, iwas a distance but had the wits as to what had happen due to my research studies on Xrays but the hiring part eked me deep and the companyi worked for had this denigrading nature mainly because I hailed from the north so my qualifications were irrelevant only those who were born and raised south majority did not have mathematics physics and Chemistry subjects but buoyed with core science divinity and their much adored venecular so they were the ones that became assistant Engineers and worked with the guy from Yugoslavia for weeks so that's how I fell out, near yet so far, stuff happens, so there was never another chance again as due to economic downturn the company folded operations, imagine this, owing its employees almost 14months salariesareas, I never felt it though as my dream was to become that which they hired but never got any closer since then, I even had friends that were at Uni on that faculty but that's me still dwelling in hope into eternity now
Khan · 8 months ago
The Islamic Republic of Iran will come through with some machines I am sure of it ..Do not be mislead by Western detractors who want this proud third world country to beg them for cancer treatment machines.....Even in the USA healthcare is unaffordable and has an elitist element to it most Americans cross the border into Canada inorder to get affordable healthcare yet no1 makes a fuss about it including their local stooge in chief Hopewell... Bulwark of People United and Free
· 8 months ago
Saka if your neighbour goes hungry, it's ok and acceptable to let your family go hungry? Ndoo kusakwana ikoko
SC · 8 months ago
Makambozviona here kuti chibaby chezanu hachiuye panyaya dzakadai
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 · 8 months ago
Hu**** hwakagadzana mu zanu
coni · 8 months ago
taneta nekuudzwa kuti zvichanaka ngazvinakeka tione rubbish incompetent leaders
coni · 8 months ago
zanu lack of commitment yacho inotobhowa this demonic government does not care about it's people chinongoziikanwa kuba neku riga election chazoitwa magona kuriga election apana tiitireiwo serious vanhu varapwe in time
coni · 8 months ago
masigede usatinyangadze ukwane
coni · 8 months ago
kungonyora zvinyadzi ndokunoziikanwa wadii wakakwana nhaiwe muendere kuinbox womuudza tsveruka kwana pfambi yemunhu enda kure nonsense
Shadows · 8 months ago
they are good at that only, heathcare system to its knees

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