Tag: Goromonzi

Goromonzi Community Welcomes Life-Saving Maternity Waiting Home

Michael Gwarisa

By Kuda Pembere in Goromonzi A new maternity waiting home at Masikandoro Clinic in Goromonzi District is being hailed a timely and life-saving development, providing expectant mothers with a safe place to stay as they await delivery—especially in a community grappling with maternal and neonatal mortality, poor road infrastructure, and long travel distances to health facilities. Located in Ward 1 of Goromonzi West Constituency, the waiting home was constructed over a period of three months. It was built under the project titled:“Supporting Peaceful, Safe, and Sustainable Reintegration for Returning Migrants…

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‘January disease’ vaccine revives Goromonzi cattle farmers’ hopes

Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere recently in Goromonzi IT is 11 pm in the scotching sun as cattle jump into Mwanza Diptank in Mwanza Village,Goromonzi district, their usual place for dipping to fight against tickbone disease. Diptanks also known as plunge dips also provide the most effective and efficient method for controlling ticks in animals against ticks, flies, mites, lice and other external parasites. An hour earlier, delegates from United Nations quadripartite agencies of the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization of Animal Health (WOAH), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and…

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