PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s investment advisor, Paul Tungwarara’s daughter, Tinotenda, was the focus of Friday’s commissioning event at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, where she invited nurses to gyrate to music in return for cash.
Tinotenda, arguably the youngest chief executive officer in the country in her teens, lured staffers at the event to the dance floor where they displayed their fancy footworks amid blurring music in the background as they awaited President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s arrival to officially commission the new infrastructure at Adlam House. For their efforts, the nurses were handed crispy US$100 notes while onlookers cheered them on.
Meanwhile, Tinotenda who runs Prevail Mart and Tap-and-Go, said she would provide 3,500 hampers every month to nurses and doctors until renovation works at the hospital are completed.
“Through one of our sister companies Prevail Mart, I have been advised that the Prevail Mart company is also going to provide 3,500 hampers to the hospital workers at Parirenyatwa and we will continue to do so every month until we finish the renovations at Parirenyatwa for all doctors and nurses,” she said.
The donations come weeks after nurses staged a strike over poor salaries, lack of medical supplies and worsening conditions in public hospitals, where patients often face drug shortages, broken equipment and overcrowded wards.
Prevail Group, which was handpicked for the renovations, announced a two-year free maintenance programme for the revamped nurses’ residences, while the company resurfaced part of Mazoe Street in Harare.
The company, whose quotation for the Adlam House refurbishment has been kept under wraps, is set to renovate the whole of Parirenyatwa and the Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Ward.
