The trouble with Zanu PF apologists like you
Hopewell Chinono is that they are incapable of thinking logically.
“Ultimately the responsibility for health care in
Zimbabwe lies with the State, but until the State has fully grasped that
reality, we can do what is within our means because the people who are dying
are our kith and kin,” you say.
“It is shameful for the rest of the world to watch
our health delivery system become a death trap whilst we claim to be an
educated nation.
“In the event that we don’t get a buy in from
government, we can come up with other plans that can help save lives.
“After talking to doctors working at the four major
hospitals, it was clear to me that the doctors do not trust the health
authorities either, so the best thing will be to get a logistics company to do
this for free.”
1.
Zimbabwe’s health
service did not collapse in the last week or month but has been in decline
these last 38 years. If it is the state’s responsibility to provide health
care, as you readily admit, and the said state has failed to “fully grasp that
reality” in the last 38 years; what makes you believe they will ever do so?
2.
It is the donor
community that has carried the burden of Zimbabwe’s health, education, food air
and many other areas which would have totally collapse a long time ago. The
tragic reality is that the more the outsiders helped the more the Zanu PF
government neglected its duty and responsibility. It is a matter of record that
the donors sourced and pay for up to 80% of Zimbabwe’s medicine is some areas.
Even with the best will in the world there is a limit to what the donors can do
especially when the Zimbabwe government authorities are known to seek health
care outside the country and waste vast fortunes of luxuries.
3.
The suggestion that
individual Zimbabweans can take-up the challenge of sourcing and paying for all
the nation medical needs is laughable. With unemployment in the country a
nauseating 90%, Zimbabweans in the country are in no position to pay for the
medicine. And Zimbabweans is the diaspora are already doing their best to keep
the nation ticking and will not be able do much more. But even if the people
can be mobilised to make the sacrifice, this can only be a short term solution.
We need a cure and not just another painkiller!
4.
Zimbabwe is in a
serious mess with 90% out of work, 3/4 of the population living on US$30 or
less a month, with health care and other basic services all but collapse, etc.
We know the root cause of the country’s economic problems is the 38 years of
corrupt and tyrannical rule by Zanu PF. We know Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta
rigged last year’s elections to extend their misrule. We can continue to bury
our heads in the sand and pretend we do not know about the corrupt and
tyrannical misrule but must know it is insane especially when the price for our
insanity is now human lives.
The idea that the people of Zimbabwe should find
other means to finance public services which should otherwise be provided by
government through their tax payments is absurd. So why are we paying the tax
for?
We have this Zanu PF government that has failed to
provide the basic services such as health care and education because it is
corrupt and incompetent. It has remained in power regardless of its pathetic
performance record only because the party has rigged elections to stay in
power. The solution is not for the people to dig deeper into their pockets to
fund basic services; this is not sustainable as we can. The solution is to get
a competent government.
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