Parirenyatwa General Hospital is a government founded district general hospital in Harare and is the largest public hospital in Zimbabwe . The hospital was formerly known as the Andrew Fleming Hospital and was named after the principal medical officer to the British South Africa Company .
3-536: Following Zimbabwean 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 person from the country 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
6-516: A quality management program in hospitals in 2005, led by Thomas Zigora , Sydney Makarawo , Max Hove , and Kennedy Gombe , which proved a difference in the way of thinking in delivering health care services. The program is currently coordinated by Godwin Mseka . 17°48′41″S 31°02′33″E / 17.8115°S 31.0426°E / -17.8115; 31.0426 Tichafa Samuel Parirenyatwa Too Many Requests If you report this error to
9-546: The main hospital complex. The College of Health Sciences of the University of Zimbabwe is based at Parirenyatwa . This is where the university's medical students train from third year onwards. The hospital has a school of nursing within the complex, which has three intakes of general nurses per year for a three-year diploma in nursing and some post-basic courses in intensive/theatre nursing, community and primary care nursing, and ophthalmic nursing. The hospital introduced
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