Why

These startling facts fuel our desire to create something that will make a difference. We believe that Rutendo Trust Hospital will have a positive impact on all the challenges mentioned above, that Zimbabweans are faced with daily.

Our hospital would be somewhere where healthcare would be available to all. Where treatable/manageable conditions, that are currently and unnecessarily giving people poor quality of life and poor life expectancy, could be well managed. A place where people would be educated on the prevention of noncommunicable conditions therefore, reducing acute episodes of illness.

A place that would enable healthcare professionals to use their skills locally and invest in their community.

How

Our vision is for ‘Rutendo Trust Hospital’ to serve the needs of the people in the surrounding community.  Our desire is to give back to our home, to create a healthcare facility that can deliver healthcare to those who otherwise wouldn’t have access to it and to share the skills we have acquired through the means of education and training, thus investing in the surrounding community, and building it up once again.

The development of the hospital will be carried out in several phases. The first phase would be the development of an initial clinic that would provide rapid assessments, diagnosis and treatment for those with relevant conditions without the need for admission overnight (if it is safe to do so), all on the same day. The clinic would also provide education on the prevention of noncommunicable conditions with the aim of reducing acute episodes of illnesses.

As well as the building of the initial clinic itself we aim to include the following on-site buildings in the first phase:  accommodation for staff and visiting volunteers, pharmacy, laboratory, x-ray department, kitchen for preparing meals for patients and staff, dining area for patients and staff members, space for vehicles to be parked as well as a designated area for ambulance usage. We may also need to develop the road networks for access to and from the clinic and ensure the water and sewer works in place are able to adequately serve the clinic and its needs.

Once this initial phase has been well established, we would then move onto the next phase of the project – building a fully functioning hospital. The second phase will include Rutendo Trust Charity in collaboration with other services and partners to develop services specific to the needs of the surrounding community.

As this project is charity based, we would like to ensure that we can make the hospital as self-sufficient as possible to keep it up and running for years to come so that many generations will benefit from it. We would therefore like to include the following small-scale projects to support the hospital: the growing of crops, vegetables and fruit trees as well as the keeping of livestock on a small-scale basis, such as chickens, goats, cattle and bees to provide meat, eggs, milk and honey as food sources for the patients and staff and for sale to the surrounding community to generate a small amount of income that would be put back into the running of the hospital to ensure it can support the needs of the surrounding community.