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Lovemore Zigara Midlands Correspondent
MIDLANDS Private Hospital (MPH) is set to open the first ever fertility clinic in the province. Fertility clinics are medical clinics that assist couples, and sometimes individuals, who want to become parents, but for medical reasons, have been unable to achieve this goal via the natural course. Gweru-based MPH Matron Sister Joyce Sibanda said construction of the fertility clinic was underway.

“We are in the process of constructing a fertility clinic because there isn’t one here in the Midlands Province. We want to assist our clients as some of those who visit us experience challenges in becoming parents,” she said.

Sister Sibanda could not give the timelines on when the clinic will be opened. She said MPH was in the process of expanding its hospital and apart from the fertility clinic, the medical institution will soon open an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the High Dependence Unit (HDU) for the critically ill.

She said the hospital requires $70 000 to import equipment for the new departments. “We have submitted our applications to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to be allocated foreign currency for us to import some of the equipment into the country.

“Some of the equipment that we need include monitors, ventilators, theatre cables, theatre lights and theatre beds, but we have not managed to receive the money from the central bank at the moment,” she added.

RBZ Deputy Director International Banking Portfolio Management Mr Ernest Matiza, who was on a tour of Midlands companies last week, said the hospital would be prioritised. “In our allocation of foreign currency health is one of our priorities because it is critical. We are going to make sure that the money comes through,” said Mr Matiza.