Maternal health services expansion takes off in Shurugwi

SHURUGWI Town Council has started rehabilitating Makusha and Mambowa clinics to create space for maternity wards as part of plans to expand maternal health services, the Southern Eye has learnt.

Council chairman Tsungai Makore said the development would ease pressure on expectant mothers from the mining town, who were being forced to congest at Shurugwi District Hospital, resulting in some opting to deliver at home.

“We are working on it (rehabilitation of clinics) and hope to open maternity wards at the clinics soon,” Makore said.

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