By Staff Reporter
ZIMBABWE is ready to take over its health related needs on the back of funding cutback by the Donald Trump administration, Health Minister Douglas Mombeshora has said.
The remarks come on the back of an 83% funding cut by the US in a development which has seen most NGOs suspending their operations , triggering fears that the moves will complicate the HIV/AIDS programs roll out.
“The challenges that I can say still remain, relate to procurement, we had medicines for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria which we had procured by they will be coming in phases.We have enough stocks up to the end of June, but the stocks that were coming to cover the period after June have been stopped, and we cannot wait to see what happens after the 90 days which they said they were using to review.
“We have actually floated a tender to do procurement of medicines that will cover from June to the end of September while we see how other resources can be covered,” he said.
In fact, Mombeshora said the government had already planned to take over all health workers to be employed by the ministry because we were facing challenges of accountability, we did not even know the reporting structure of those employed by NGOs.
