Zimbabwe: Funding Gap in Health Sector Triggers Medicines Shortages, Staffing Crisis in Zimbabwe
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) says it is struggling to keep hospitals running, retain health workers in rural areas and secure essential medicines as unpredictable funding, collapsing donor support and growing disease burdens pile pressure on the health system.
Appearing before the Health and Child Care Parliamentary Portfolio Committee last Tuesday for the 2027 pre-budget consultations, Health secretary Aspect Maunganidze and the Health Service Commission (HSC) said while government has maintained hospital services and public health programmes in the first half of 2026, the system is operating under severe fiscal strain.94 billion, but by September only slightly over half had been released, with utilisation of released funds at over 90 percent.
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