Academic Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes:
People are dying in hospitals
Vakomana inzwawo tsitsi hama dzangu !!
Yesterday around 3.30 I had a long chat with a colleague who is working at a local hospital who told me my brother the state in our hospitals is extremely bad, despite the State paper and other propaganda machinery aimed at spinning information, people are dying in huge numbers. Mortuaries are flooded with dead bodies and they are working with other companies like Nyaradzo to accommodate more bodies. For those who were thinking that everything is normal, there is nothing like that.
Let’s come closer come, I find it very difficult and surprising that my learned colleague, Muthuli Ncube who was a professor in all those reputable institutions, and moreover he worked at African Development Bank as a Vice President, he also worked in South Africa in one of the most recognised universities, before switching to London, and later alone the collapsed bank. I’m failing to come to terms with reality that the whole Government fail to declare ” A state of emergency” in the health sector.
Honestly what is Mnangagwa doing to resolve the crisis? I went through the budget statement, I’m not sure who drafted the statement, budget allocating 88 Million to a non -existing looting facility called ” POLAD” is extremely worry some. Is Polad an arm of the state? Recently the failed project, anti -sanction march gobbled over 4 Million with university students scrambling for chicken slice left overs.
That 4 million United States dollars could have gone to all State Hospitals and doctors’s allowances. Whats wrong with Zanu PF Government? If these political parties subscribed to Polad project were really sincere and genuine with a proper national agenda, they would have declined that whole some 88 million. If I’m not mistaken, if you count those opposition members under POLAD, they are less than 100 people country wide including their supporters and reality is they will receive perks and other benefits. This is a mockery and no investor will take this country seriously.
Instead my brother is talking of launching a satellite project and other non-existing imaginations and he has already allocated resources for that.
We have health, education, industry and other critical sectors of the economy and if you go through the statement you are run short of concluding that this was a poetry done by economics student in the first year at UZ.
Today we have a state Vice President who has gone under medical checks using state funds, we have ministers and other senior officials who have been seeking medical assistance outside the country and some are flown on emergency flights gobbling millions of dollars. Recently few months back, we buried the former President Robert Mugabe, who was seeking in foreign lands seeking medical assistance.
Takatadzeiko? The common person can’t afford a loaf of bread, and even a decent meal.
Four million people face starvation, we have no grain in stock, yet RBZ released over 5.9 billion United States dollars in the name of Command Agriculture. Public Accounts Committee chaired by Biti ( Harare East Lawmaker & Barrister) summoned the Command Agriculture chief and he is nowhere to be seen.
In short from 2017 to 2019, Zimbabwe has lost over 9 Billion USD ( United States dollars) .
The world over this kind of looting has not been recorded, ours have reached alarming levels !!!
Something must happen !!!
Chanhuwa chinhu ichi.!!!
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo – Doctor of Philosophy Candidate ( Women’s University in Africa), B.A Solusi University, MA University of Lusaka, Zambia, Post Grad in Project Management – University of Zimbabwe & B.Sc Development Studies Candidate ( Zimbabwe Open University) and he can be contacted at [email protected]