Government of Zimbabwe
Covid-19 has not been all bad news, and there have been a number of benefits that we need to put on the credit side of the balance, from the growth in national unity, to improved public health and the acceleration of the programmes to renovate and upgrade our medical facilities.
“Last week, Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube announced that the accounts for last year show that Zimbabwe reached a little early the African Abuja objective of allocating 15 percent of the Budget to the health sector”
Covid-19 has not been all bad news, and there have been a number of benefits that we need to put on the credit side of the balance, from the growth in national unity, to improved public health and the acceleration of the programmes to renovate and upgrade our medical facilities.
Right at the very beginning, there was a determined national effort to get Zimbabwe ready, with processions of Zimbabweans going to State House with donations and pledges of equipment, food for patients, sanitisers, masks, offers of free boreholes and just about everything else that was needed urgently.
President Mnangagwa, standing at the head of the receiving line, was struck by the united effort as the country geared up to combat the pandemic. There was also a high level of maturity from all; since a little over half the voting population had voted for President Mnangagwa in 2018, the procession at State House was a sufficiently large statistical sample to make it a good bet that a little under half had voted for someone else. That was not considered important by anyone there. The objective was to stop people dying, not score political points.
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