Terrence Mawawa

The usually calm and composed Health Minister David Parirenyatwa has blamed MDC leader Nelson Chamisa for politicising the Nurses’ industrial action.

Parirenyatwa slammed opposition politicians’ use of hospitals as campaigning venues.

Parirenyatwa made the remarks after MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, yesterday choreographed a visit to public hospitals to “push his political agenda,” according to The Sunday Mail.

The Health Minister said: “I am very much against those who come to health institutions and use the hospitals to drive their political motives because a hospital is a high security area and the patients should be well protected at all costs.

“The hospital is also an area of confidentiality and therefore one cannot just come and invade the privacy of patients like that.

Lastly, the hospital is a sacred place where people are treated and where some die and therefore not a political play ground. That must come to an end.”