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Declare sector security status' for health sector - Parirenyatwa
05 May 2016 at 09:52hrs | Views
Health and Child Care Minister, David Parirenyatwa wants government to grant the health sector security status which will grant it "preferential treatment" in budgetary allocations.
Parirenyatwa said the Health Services Board was created in order to treat the health ministry as a special sector.
"Once we declare it a security ministry, in other words like what happens in the army and the police, automatically we must look at (health practitioners) conditions of service so that they are made much better," said Parirenyatwa.
"There is no point making them a special ministry and then take them into the rest of the civil service. There must be that difference."
Zimbabwe's health sector, once the envy of many on the African continent, has been run down over the years through underfunding, which has led to staff shortages and inadequate drugs at public hospitals.
Recently, junior doctors embarked on industrial action in protest over their poor remuneration and service conditions.
Parirenyatwa said the Health Services Board was created in order to treat the health ministry as a special sector.
"Once we declare it a security ministry, in other words like what happens in the army and the police, automatically we must look at (health practitioners) conditions of service so that they are made much better," said Parirenyatwa.
Zimbabwe's health sector, once the envy of many on the African continent, has been run down over the years through underfunding, which has led to staff shortages and inadequate drugs at public hospitals.
Recently, junior doctors embarked on industrial action in protest over their poor remuneration and service conditions.
Source - Byo24News
