Bringing Healthcare to Artisanal Miners in Zimbabwe | Natasha Zindoga

MSF teams, comprising of a doctor and nurses, pharmacy technicians, and health promoters, organise outreach trips to artisanal mining sites scattered around Gwanda district to provide medical care, and on some days, they go to host communities. Outreach is done four days a week, with the teams visiting two different locations per day.
Each day, they attend to new patients, seeing a minimum of 70 patients in the mining locations and over 200 patients in communities. The medical services include free screening for conditions such as TB, HIV, cervical cancer screening, hypertension, and sexually transmitted infections and family planning services. Medications are provided for free at outreaches; patients who cannot be managed at outreach or require advanced interventions are referred to Gwanda Provincial Hospital.