Terrence Mawawa|The government has blamed defaulting patients for poor service delivery in major hospitals.

Masvingo Provincial Medical Director, Amadeus Shamu told a daily paper the government was battling to upgrade medical equipment due to failure by patients to settle hospital bills.

“We are struggling to upgrade and update our equipment because there are so many patients who are failing to settle their hospital bills.

The Ministry of Health and Child Care is losing a lot of money as result of defaulting patients,” said Shamu.