Khupe said this on Friday at Ekuphumuleni Old People’s home where she donated food worth US$2 000, a day after the institution sent out an SOS for food through our sister paper, NewsDay.
“I understand that besides lacking food, you have a number of challenges here such as the need for an ambulance and medicine,” Khupe said.
“The government needs to come in and help.”
She promised to approach the Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Henry Madzorera and his Water Resources Development and Management counterpart, Samuel Sipepa- Nkomo on access to medicine and the sinking of a borehole at the institution’s Nondwene Plot respectively.
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The institution hopes to start a market gardening project at the farm once a borehole is sunk. The DPM said she was moved after being told that the institution was running out of food.
There are 32 patients at Ekuphumuleni. The institution houses elderly people who would have been discharged from hospital and looks after them until they fully recover.
