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Home > ZIMBABWE: Deepening crisis affects health care

Contributor [1]
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
126 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The announcement this week by Shangani Hospital in Matabeleland South that it would no longer admit patients, because it ran out of food a fortnight ago, is further evidence of Zimbabwe's deepening economic and humanitarian crises. The hospital, situated in a former commercial farming area, serves an estimated 12,500 newly resettled families.

Category: 
Food & Health [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/17436 [5]
Country: 
Zimbabwe [6]

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