The Herald (Harare)
1 December 2008
ACTING President Joice Mujuru has urged Zimbabweans to help raise funds to revive the health sector while Vice President Cde Joseph Msika yesterday called on the private sector, civil society and other organisations to support HIV and Aids infected and affected people.
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According to Mai Mujuru,Joe Msika and the one David Parirenyatwa,Zimbabwes Health Delivery System is down to every zimbabwean.Going even further to aportion the responsibility to civic society,Private sector and the Diasporans.I say NO to this nonsense,The Government of every country is responsible for the delivery of healt to its people through taxes paid out to them.Zimbabwe has no government to date but the fools purporting to be "the government of Zimbabwe"continue taxing the small number of those lucky or stupid enough to be still employed.Why would a person who is in the diaspora who is not allowed to vote for the government of their choice under Zanu Pf pay for a health services that does not benefit them?Diasporans are paying taxes in countries they are currently residing ,living a dogs life and working like donkeys taking care of their families they left in Zim.What right thinking person is going to give money to this Zanu establishment while they still are in charge of our important institutions? These three baffons have a very very short memory forgetting that they have only just barred the most needed help a week ago in the form of the Elders.How stupid can a "leadership" get? We know that these guys want to be seen as doing something about cholera while Mugabe is away.These foolish public statements will not make our problems go away.If anything people like mai mujuru obviously with more money than sense should pay back what they stole from the coffers to put the things right
Yes health is everyones responsability,common sence dictates that if you boil water, wash and take basic hygene stepsyou own personal health would in most cases remain good. It would be made a lot easier if the government did not misapropriate funds deposited for exactly that. The government should look also to the root cause of the cholera and anthrax epidemics that are ravaging the country. If govenment departments were doing their jobs and not stealing the funds for water, animal husbandry and agriculture, schools, fire departments, etc. etc then this would never have happened. AS per usual Zanu PF is blaming everyone else for their own blunders rather than facing up to the catastrophy they have caused. They should be asked why NGO'S are still being inhibited from supplying this urgent help needed. Instead when everyone is suffering and dying they call for private/public partnership. When they are intent on nationalising the private sector they are asking for that same sector to bail them out. Maybe they should ask the ministers that have plundered the country to dig deep and donate some of the spoils, give back to the generation they have robbed. Sanctions? I can only see additional funding being pledged from the very countries that have imposed these so called sanctions. I like to statement attributed to Msika "The government is intent on delivering help to those LEAVING with HIV/AIDS." Where are they leaving to and what about those living with it?