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NGO opens health centre in Tsholotsho
The Chronicle (Zimbabwe)
February 17, 2006

A non-governmental organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres, has opened an opportunistic infections clinic at Tsholotsho District Hospital.

MSF’s programmes officer, Miss Fernanda Falero, said the clinic would provide treatment to people in the district affected by HIV and AIDS.

"Now the people of Tsholotsho have their own centre that has specialists to deal with opportunistic infections. They do not have to travel to Bulawayo any more to get treatment," she said.

MSF has also established Voluntary Counselling and Testing centres at the hospital and four other clinics in the district.

"Apart from the VCT services and the Opportunistic Infections Clinic, we have sent out a team that is now permanently based in Tsholotsho. This team mainly deals with outreach programmes, peer education and mobile VCT operations," she said.

Miss Falero said plans were under way to extend services to all the rural clinics in the district by the end of the year.

Tsholotsho district administrator, Mr William Muzamba, said the opportunistic infections clinic was a welcome development and added that MSF was doing a remarkable job in Tsholotsho.

"We are quite overwhelmed by the progress that this organisation and the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare are bringing to the health sector in Tsholotsho. We hope to see more NGO’s that work in harmony with the Government," he said.

He urged other NGO’s to work together with the Government to ensure development in rural communities.

Last year, MSF facilitated the opening of similar clinics at Mpilo Central Hospital and the United Bulawayo Hospitals.

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