eBusiness Weekly
Kiyara Matambanadzo
The Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) has identifies Ruwa Rehabilitation Hospital as the beneficiary of their annual charity program.
The ICZ recently held a charity golf fundraiser event to raise funds for Ruwa rehabilitation hospital as well as introduce the beneficiary of the program to stakeholders.
Ruwa Rehabilitation Centre and Hospital is a Government facility that assists people with severe spinal cord and or head related injuries from all over Zimbabwe.
The program aims to provide assistance to identified beneficiaries like Ruwa rehabilitation hospital in order to affect positive change and long term relief in disadvantaged communities.
ICZ executive director Panganai Sanangurai said the organization takes the role of being a socially responsible association seriously and said that the spirit of the evening was a reflection that, “corporates have human hearts that drive acts of kindness to the needy in our society.”
He said that Ruwa rehabilitation hospital -which provides care for people who have sustained injuries from road accidents, mining accidents or other incidents- was a preferred option largely for the reason that the services it provides have a relevant link to the insurance industry.
“The hospital provides rehabilitation to victims with bone structures injuries as a result of various accidents.
The insurance industry is involved in compensating such victims through claims and at times this includes payment of disability benefits as well as physical rehabilitation.
Some of our beneficiaries end up at the Ruwa Rehabilitation Hospital,” he explained.
Ruwa rehabilitation hospital medical superintendent, Dr Musara, also spoke at the charity event, about the work that the hospital does while highlighting the challenges that it faces.
“We help patients to regain the ability to do normal everyday tasks by restoring old skills and teaching patients new skills to adjust to injuries and disabilities through adaptive equipment.
At full capacity this would be done through the provision of assistive devices, aids and appliances to improve function in self-care skills such as bathing, feeding, grooming, toileting, work skills, productive activities, housekeeping, childcare and recreational activities.
These services are critical in assisting affected patients, particularly patients that cannot afford private facilities to learn to live as best and independently as they can,” Dr Musara explained.
He further explained that hospital is operating far below capacity as it faces operational challenges, including shortages of essential equipment for both occupational therapy and physiotherapy services and this has had a direct effect on the services that they can offer.
Dr Musara also shared a list of items the hospital requires in order to function at full capacity such as a borehole (as the hospital has no water supply, presently the hospital runs on paid water deliveries), hydrotherapy pool (because the pool last functioned over 20 years ago), occupational therapy equipment, exercise equipment, hydraulic beds, ward curtaining, x-ray machine, consumables and a functional laboratory.
Previously, in 2019, the ICZ aided Rutengeni Primary and Secondary Schools in Chipinge recover from the severe effects of Cyclone Idai.
