Tongogara Rural District Council has embarked on a refurbishment and electrification programme targeted at health service centres in the district.
BY MOSES MUGUGUNYEKI
The programme, which will see the electrification of four clinics in the district’s 24 wards, is funded by the local authority.
Tongogara Rural District Council chief executive officer, Addington Munyoro said the local authority had embarked on the refurbishment of several projects in the district.
“We have a programme aimed at electrifying four of our clinics – Jobolinko, Mazivisa, Tokwe and Banga. Council is funding the project,” he said.
Munyoro said the council was also refurbishing Mbiri Clinic, as well as improving the water reticulation system at Zhaugwe Clinic.
“Work on the refurbishment of Mbiri Clinic is in progress,” he said. “We are also working on the water reticulation system at Zhaugwe Clinic in Ward 21.”
Munyoro said the local authority was also working on a number of income generating projects, whose proceeds would be channelled towards development of the district.
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“Council is currently in the process of establishing a piggery project in Ruchanyu,” said Munyoro. “It is an income generating project for the local authority that will cost US$100 000. The money is available and we have started work on the project.”
He said the council plans to keep about 300 pigs when the project is fully operational.
Projects undertaken by the local authority are designed to boost the district’s health delivery system, which is also benefitting from the Tongogara Share Ownership Trust.
Most of the health centres in the district have been manned by skeleton staff, as hordes of qualified personnel shun the centres, citing lack of electricity.
The ownership trust has so far funded the expansion of the maternity wing at Zvamabande Hospital at Donga Business Centre, as well as the rehabilitation of Chirume Dam.
It is expected that about 170 boreholes will be rehabilitated, while 160 more would be drilled by the Tongogara Community Share Ownership Trust.
