{"id":12020,"date":"2019-08-05T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=12020"},"modified":"2019-08-05T15:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:07:50","slug":"health-funding-still-poor-cwgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/health-funding-still-poor-cwgh","title":{"rendered":"Health funding still poor: CWGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) yesterday said the supplementary budget for the health sector, which Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced on Thursday last week is still inadequate in the face of rising disease and mortality levels in the country.<span id=\"more-3096224744028936\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CWGH executive director Itai Rusike told NewsDay in an interview that despite Ncube\u2019s strong expressions, during the budget presentation, placed on social priorities including health, the supplementary budget for health only had a nominal increase which did not match priorities in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s per capita health spending in 2019 is a measly $41 per person after Ncube allocated only $755 million towards health in the 2019 Budget, which has also been increased by a small margin in the July supplementary budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to know whether the Ministry of Finance has any guide in its allocations of a level of per capita funding of health services that constitutes the \u2018bottom line\u2019 in terms of the rights or needs of citizens,\u201d Rusike said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe supplementary budget allocation for the health sector is inadequate in the face of rising disease and mortality levels,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rusike said there has been a massive increase in the cost of essential drugs in the country as well as a drop in the ability to purchase drugs by low income people resulting in barriers to access to healthcare due to the high costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese trends are exacerbated by government failing to sufficiently look into the cost of health services. The state of the health services \u2014 near collapse \u2014 is directly related to government misplacing its priorities in not allocating adequate resources to the health sector,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The CWGH said government should start making health delivery a top priority if it is to save its health institutions from imminent collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only hope that the Ministry of Health and Child Care will manage the additional funds allocated to them as efficiently and effectively as possible in order to maintain good health standards in the face of collapsing health services,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>During his 2019 supplementary budget statement, Ncube said among some of the things that government will do for the health sector is to acquire 100 fully equipped ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Health and Child Care has completed the tendering process for procurement of ambulances, and in this regard an amount of $68 million in additional funding is proposed to complete the procurement process that targets acquisition of 100 fully equipped ambulances,\u201d Ncube said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said to strengthen the referral health system, government was rehabilitating and upgrading health infrastructure as well as constructing rural health posts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith regards to central hospitals, refurbishment works for the medical gas reticulation system, theatres and incinerators at Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals, have been completed. Following a fire outbreak which affected Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Hospital at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in February 2019, refurbishment of wards and installation of new theatre equipment has been completed and the hospital is now fully operational,\u201d Ncube said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) yesterday said the supplementary budget for the health sector, which Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced on Thursday last week is still inadequate in the face of rising disease and mortality levels in the country. 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