The Avenues Clinic has invested US$500,000 in upgrading its critical care services as the private healthcare facility strengthens its capacity to treat critically ill patients.
The investment has funded the refurbishment of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), High Dependency Unit (HDU) and Coronary Care Unit (CCU), with the clinic saying the improvements are aimed at making critical care safer and more efficient.
The latest investment brings the clinic’s total spending under its ongoing hospital-wide refurbishment and recapitalisation programme to about US$4 million.
The upgraded units now have advanced patient monitoring systems, redesigned bedside infrastructure, integrated medical gas and power outlets, moisture detection technology and additional dialysis points.
Speaking during the official opening of the upgraded facility in Harare on Monday, The Avenues Clinic managing director Sibusisiwe Ndhlovu said the new infrastructure would improve patient care while making it easier for healthcare workers to monitor patients.
“We are using technology to help them do their work. They are less stressed; they can just check the monitor, and then they can come and attend to the patient,” she said.
Ndhlovu said the redesigned bedside units brought essential equipment and services together, reducing the need to share power points and improving patient safety.
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The units also have moisture detection devices beneath patients’ mattresses, which alert nurses when patients require attention.
Another major improvement is the expansion of dialysis points from one to 13 across the ICU, HDU and CCU.
The additional points allow patients requiring dialysis to receive treatment at their bedsides rather than being moved, improving efficiency and reducing risks associated with transferring critically ill patients.
The Avenues Clinic financial controller Oscar Maradzamunda said the US$500,000 investment formed part of a broader modernisation programme.
“For this investment, we spent half a million into this critical unit. To date, we have managed to spend about US$4 million into the refurbishment of the entire hospital,” he said.
Maradzamunda said the next phase would focus on upgrading the operating theatres, with work expected to begin in the coming quarter.
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