Parirenyatwa Hospital
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Parirenyatwa General Hospital is the largest medical centre in Zimbabwe[1]. Located in Harare, the hospital was formerly known as the Andrew Fleming Hospital, and was named after the principal medical officer to the British South Africa Company.
Following independence in 1980, the hospital was renamed in honour of Tichafa Samuel Parirenyatwa (1927-1962), a close associate of Joshua Nkomo and the first black Zimbabwean to qualify as a doctor of medicine.
As well as its general medical and surgical sections, the hospital includes Mbuya Nehanda, a maternity section; Sekuru Kaguvi, which specialises in eye treatment; and an annex for psychiatric patients and several specialist paediatric wards.It has in excess of 5000 beds and 12 theatres in the main hosptal compex alone.
The College of Health Sciences of the University of Zimbabwe is based at Parirenyatwa.This is where the university's medical students train from 3rd year onwards.
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- ^ Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals undergoes refurbishment. ZBC News Cache. Retrieved on 2006-05-16.
- Rasmussen, R.K., and Rubert, S.C., 1990. Historical Dictionary of Zimbabwe, Scarecrow Press.
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