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The health delivery system in Sanyati is set for a major boost, with the local authority expected to roll out mobile clinics where contract doctors would conduct routine visits to various health centres, which will assist villagers to reduce transport costs.

In an interview recently, Sanyati Rural District Council chairperson Mr Partson Chakauya said villagers were struggling to get access to good health services at referral hospitals due to exorbitant transport fees.

“We have resolved to liaise with doctors from Sanyati and Kadoma General Hospital for them to conduct regular visits at our clinics on an agreed date be it weekly or monthly,” he said. “This was out of the realisation that patients were losing a lot of money in transport costs and food to travel to and from Kadoma General Hospital, the major referral institution in the district.”

Council has in the past indicated its desire to bring health facilities closer to the people after it renovated an existing farmhouse at Carfex to suit the minimum requirements for a clinic. Mr Chakauya commended Government for resuming road works on the Kadoma-Sanyati Highway.

Government recently resumed construction of the 100 kilometres Sanyati Road dual carriageway that is expected to spur economic activity in the predominantly cotton farming and gold mining area.

The poor state of the roads had resulted in transport costs increasing significantly, thereby eating into the farmers’ income.