The chairman of MMPT, Beven Museka, said: “The programme is intended to improve the provision of health services and training of health personnel in Manicaland and Zimbabwe as a whole amid an acute shortage of qualified health workers.”
Thousands of qualified doctors and nurses left the country for better paid jobs abroad, part of the severe brain drain that affected the country over the past decade.
“The initiative is focused on promoting and supporting a proper health care delivery system. This will see interested individual health professionals spending a period of two weeks to one month in Zimbabwe and will be attached to a hospital of their choice in Manicaland to treat patients, conduct joint medical procedures with local personnel, provide administrative advice and perform laboratory tests and help teach nursing students. This is also open to any other hospitals throughout Zimbabwe,” said Museka.