By Wallace Mawire
(News of The South) – Zimnat and Health Maintenance Network Africa have handed over 10 boreholes valued at more than five million Zimbabwe dollars to the Ministry of Health and Child Care as their contribution towards combatting COVID-19.
The boreholes were officially handed over to the ministry at the commissioning of the first of them at Murereka Clinic in Lion’s Den, Mashonaland West Province, at a ceremony officiated at by Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka.
Zimnat and Health Maintenance Network Africa, a member of the CareNet Africa Group, are providing a borehole in each of Zimbabwe’s 10 provinces.
Handing over the Murereka Clinic community borehole, Zimnat Life Assurance managing director Workmore Chimweta said the boreholes were being provided as part of the nation’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the aim being to help flatten the COVID-19 curve by providing clean water in each of the country’s provinces.
“The project is in line with our mission of making lives better and was funded through our partner, the Sanlam Group, which is the largest non-banking financial services group in Africa,” Mr Chimweta said.
Zimnat group chief executive Mustafa Sachak said that in contributing to the fight against COVID-19 Zimnat had wanted to provide something that would be useful beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In partnership with Health Maintenance Network Africa, we decided to drill boreholes in each province, since a clean and safe water supply is a basic human need and necessary to sustain all forms of life.
“We hope that our efforts, through Sanlam, combined with those of the government, Health Maintenance Network Africa, local authorities and the various corporate bodies who have joined the fight against COVID-19, will result in the virus being effectively controlled and eliminated and will continue benefiting communities beyond COVID-19,” Mr Sachak said.
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