Continued deterioration of Zimbabwe’s hospitals
Yesterday, human rights activist Jacob Ngarivhume posted the following on X: “This is Parirenyatwa Hospital, formerly Andrew Fleming Hospital. I took this picture this evening. This is the OPD entrance. There are no lights, even at this front entrance of the OPD.Inside the hospital, most sections are dark. Its scary inside the hospital. Fellow Zimbabweans, we have a crisis at hand. The failure of Zimbabwe has been a failure of leadership.” @NgarivhumeJ Sadly, this is a reflection of the state of all public general hospitals. I went to Harare Hospital with a sick relative in March of this year and the situation is just the same. Patients are not attended on time, spending hours in the casualty section without seeing a doctor. Usually there’s just one doctor attending patients in the ward and in the casualty sections. The healthcare professionals are not to take the blame. The hospitals lack basic medical equipment and medication, there are power outages half of the time, health wor...