In 2026, reporting from Bulawayo described new radiotherapy equipment for Mpilo Central Hospital and Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, including linear accelerators intended to strengthen cancer-treatment capacity.

The Southern Eye reported that biomedical workers were preparing facilities by removing ageing machines, while hospital physicists described the required acceptance and commissioning tests before safe clinical use.

The arrival or delivery of equipment is not evidence that a machine has been commissioned and is treating patients. OurPride records procurement and installation preparations as the documented milestone, and will update operating status only after reliable confirmation.

Medical physicists, radiographers, engineers, radiation therapists, technicians, nurses and oncology patients all belong in this history—not simply the officials photographed receiving equipment.

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