Health in Ruins: A Man-Made Disaster in Zimbabwe

Publisher:
Physicians for Human Rights
Publication Date:
13 January 2009
Tags:
Zimbabwe, Conflict, Peace and Security, Health and Medicine, Human Rights

What happens when a government presides over the dramatic reversal of its population's access to food, clean water, basic sanitation, and healthcare? When government policies lead directly to the shuttering of hospitals and clinics, the closing of its medical school, and the beatings of health workers, are we to consider the attendant deaths and injuries as any different from those resulting from a massacre of similar proportions?

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