By Robson Melasi|  The country consumes about 2,5 million litres of diesel and 1,5 million litres of petrol daily, which translates to over one billion litres per year. Assuming that we adopt the South African model of collecting eleven cents per litre of fuel, it translates to $158,4 million annually to cover accident victims.

We have been witnessing sad accidents where ambulance services had been hesitant to attend to accident victims because of uncertainty over payment of services rendered. This should be a thing of the past once the fund is introduced. Current economic challenges have left ordinary Zimbabweans constrained in accessing medical services, with some health institutions demanding payment upfront even in cases of accidents. Therefore, we believe the new fund should be thoroughly researched and debated so that would-be accident victims are assured of proper health care while the deceased’s family will not have to endure the pain of scrounging for resources to bury their loved ones. Social security nets are critical in a country’s development process, hence why the People’s Rainbow Coalition views this idea of a proposed framework of such a fund as one such facility that should ease the livelihood of most Zimbabweans.

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