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Zimbabwe struggles to procure cancer machines

Zimbabwe's government has yet to procure critical cancer treatment machines, despite claims of mobilising over US$30 million as of December 2024 for their acquisition, raising concerns about the state of the country's healthcare delivery.I…

Published: 05 Oct 2025 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ghost workers at Zimbabwe's major hospitals

Zimbabwe's biggest hospitals are losing billions of dollars in public funds due to ghost workers, missing drugs, and a complete lack of oversight, a damning Auditor-General's report has revealed.The hard-hitting audit exposes shocking mism…

Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 13:00hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa govt expecting 200 ambulances

The Government, through the Presidential Emergency Medical Scheme (PEMS), is set to bolster emergency health services across Zimbabwe by deploying a fleet of 200 ambulances to health facilities spanning all ten provinces.Health and Child C…

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:34hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter

What Is Independence Without Freedom? - UFP

Fellow Zimbabweans, our nation marks 45 years of independence, a moment that should be cause for pride, joy and celebration. But I come before you not by fireworks, but with heavy questions and a heart burdened by truth. We ask: What is in…

Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 13:49hrs | | by UFP

Uninterrupted power supply for hospitals, clinics in Zimbabwe

Hospitals and clinics in Zimbabwe are set to be exempted from load shedding as the government plans to install solar power systems to ensure continuous power supply. This move aims to address the issues caused by prepaid electricity meteri…

Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 10:24hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Zimbabwe public hospitals slide into dereliction'

A SURVEY by a civil society organisation, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd), has revealed the continued dilapidation of the country's health facilities, with most district hospitals in a state of disrepair.Zimbabwe's…

Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe hospitals overwhelmed

MEDICAL practitioners have urged government to consider establishing makeshift health centres for COVID-19 admissions as the country's health institutions are inundated with severe cases needing hospitalisation.The health experts told News…

Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's herbalists, doctors unite thwarting non-communicable diseases

HARARE - With government's research confirming that 80 percent of Zimbabweans consult herbalists prior to visiting hospitals, the country's Ministry of Health has shifted to partnering traditional healers.According to Dr Justice Mudavanhu,…

Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 16:56hrs | | by Ropafadzo Mapimhidze

A staggering number of Zimbabweans dying outside hospitals

A huge number of Covid-19 victims in Zimbabwe are dying outside health institutions with half of the casualties in Matabeleland South succumbing to the respiratory disease before accessing treatment, an analysis of official statistics has …

Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:48hrs | 4 | by Nokuthaba Dlamini

Situation in Zimbabwe hospitals a damning indictment on government

A signature characteristic of former President Robert Mugabe (pictured)'s administration was silence in the face of crippling crises. Zimbabweans, at the height of Mugabe's rule, had become resigned to fate.At times, the ageing leader woul…

Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Learnmore Zuze

Hopewell Chin'ono's Save Our Hospitals initiative good idea but he is offside

I like Hopewell Chin'ono, he is an ambitious young man full of political energy. He is the mastermind of the idea behind the Save Our Hospitals initiative launched in the month of March 2019. He already appointed and anointed a team of pro…

Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 21:03hrs | 10 | by Don Chigumba

When will Mnangagwa act on Zimbabwe's death trap hospitals?

She's being called the doctor who moved a nation. This week Azza Mashumba, the head of paediatrics at Harare's main-and-in-desperate-straits Parirenyatwa Hospital, made a tearful plea to the health minister for support."Babies are dying," …

Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 19:14hrs | 1 | by Oliver Matthews

Nurses down their syringes

NURSES at Government hospitals countrywide yesterday downed tools in protest over the failure by their employer to attend to their grievances which include poor remuneration and working conditions.The Zimbabwe Nurses' Association (Zina) wr…

Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'Serious disaster in Mashonaland Central hospitals'

Dear Editor, Please help me implore the Minister of Health and Child Care David Parirenyatwa to visit hospitals in Mashonaland Central in the new dispensation.Since the new president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa said the voice of the people…

Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Concerned Citizen

Why can't Mugabe build world-class hospitals?

Chemist Siziba, a pioneering telecoms expert, once told me a simple home truth which can be applied to many facets of everyday life."If you tell me that you have a PhD, that's fine, I hope it makes you feel better about yourself. But can y…

Published: 12 May 2017 at 14:26hrs | 4 | by Brezhnev Malaba

Bulawayo Hospitals shamed over expired drugs

Management at three major Bulawayo hospitals have been shamed after a team of visiting legislators discovered millions of dollars worth of expired drugs in storage areas, along with unused equipment and supplies that are vital to medical t…

Published: 05 Jun 2014 at 17:30hrs | | by Tererai Karimakwenda

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