A state-of-the-art incinerator funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is currently under construction at Mpilo Central Hospital.
The incinerator aims to revolutionise waste management in the Southern region of Zimbabwe.
Mpilo Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Narcacius Dzvanga, highlighted that the incinerator would not only benefit the hospital but also assist the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) in waste management.
“The incinerator is under construction, it’s going to be a game changer in the waste management in the Southern region. It’s not meant to save the hospital but the city. As you saw for yourself it’s a huge building and it’s going to come with two trucks for collecting liquid waste and other forms of waste, I am sure we will be able to assist Bulawayo City Council (BCC) with the waste management as well,” said Dr Dzvanga.
The facility is scheduled for completion in early 2024.
“Everything is ready, they have started the recruitment of relevant staff, incinerator operator, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, once we have the full complement of the staff that is required then they are ready to bring the meta, what they don’t want is to deliver then the thing is lying idle because we don’t have incinerator operator, the engineer, so they are saying once we have manpower ready, they deliver, they train and we are done. For some of the ranks they are basics, drivers, general hands, we can recruit within,” he said.
Dr Dzvanga also revealed the imminent completion of a modern MRI facility at the hospital, the first of its kind in the Southern region.
“The last email I got is that they will be training our radiographers from the 4th –11th of January and they have already sent them websites to start looking up certain key elements of the MRI. Once our staff are trained then we are good to go. It’s supposed to be an expensive thing, but I am almost certain that our parent ministry is going to put a cap on how much we can charge so that it remains relevant and assist everyone who needs it,’ he said.
