Patients are sleeping on the floor at Chitungwiza Central Hospital as the referral centre is failing to cope with the number of patients being admitted there.

Patients Sleeping On The Floor At The Chitungwiza Central Hospital

However, the hospital being central as it is, it does not have enough medicine for its patients. Most people are being told to buy their own medication and then come and have it administered for them at the hospital.

“Things are tough here my son. We are being told to buy our own medication and I have just done that from a pharmacy at Makoni shopping centre. They don’t have medication here,” said one elderly man who had come to see his ailing relative admitted at the hospital.

“Each time I come here I want to faint because of the smell that will be coming from the wards. You really feel that you are in a hospital with sick people but this is not the same for private hospitals like South Medical here in Chitungwiza or private hospitals and clinics in Harare,” said John Ushe who could not stand the smell and had to wait outside Ward 2 after he had visited a sick admitted relative.

This, most people are pointing, is being caused by lack of proper hygienic practices at the hospital.

“I wouldn’t want to be admitted here if I fell sick because the environment will worsen my condition,” said another lady commenting on the situation at the hospital.

The photograph with this story was taken in Ward 2 at Chitungwiza hospital using a camera phone and is evident of patients sleeping on the floor at the hospital.

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