A team of 11 volunteer doctors has been dispatched to Chingwizi area where over 2,500 families displaced by the Tokwe Mukosi dam flooding are currently staying amid fears of a disease outbreak.
The doctors will be in the area for two weeks and will ensure that the victims have access to medical services .
The doctors are part of humanitarian assistance being offered by companies,churches, and individual who have taken heed to calls by the state to offer help to move more than 60,000 people affected directly or indirectly by the flooding.
Econet wireless in partenership with Higher Life Foundation HLF and the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe RCZ this week funded the dispatch of the doctors who will assist other government doctors already there .
The dispatched medial personnel will make sure that the area is disease free amid reports that there were fears of an outbreak of cholera and other water born disease in the area.
"We have dispatched doctors and drugs to make sure that the victims do have access to medical services", said Petronella Maramba an official with HLF.
"In addition we have also given Bibles to the people affected by the floods to ensure that they always remember that Jesus and God is with them during these hard times",said Maramba.
Churches have also dispatched evangelists who would hold crusades and church services to the affected people.
Sources within the healthy sector have warned of a disease our break at Chingwizi holding camp where thousands of displaced flood victims are currently being held.
The flood victims at Chingwizi are getting food rations from the state in addition to blankets and other essentials.
"We have already given government advice that there should be doctors and nurses in the area to avoid disease outbreaks,"said the source.
Donations for the flood victims have been pouring in and Zimbabweans have since called on the government to be transparent in the distribution of the donated goods.
Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti has been receiving donations on behalf of the victims.