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? We don’t need to wonder. It is happening now in Zimbabwe.
PHR has witnessed the devastation caused by the willful neglect of Zimbabwe’s people by the Government of Robert Mugabe. We detail the causes and effects of this crisis in our new report, Health in Ruins: PHR Reports on the Man-Made Health Crisis in Zimbabwe.
- Read PHR’s New Report on the Crisis
- See what the PHR Team found in December
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Health Care: Zimbabwe’s Luxury Item
[...] has been in a downward spiral for at least the last ten years. The education system is in ruins, hospitals are closed, roads are impassable and the water and sewage systems [...]
[...] PHR reported in its January 2009 report, Health in Ruins: A Man-Made Disaster in Zimbabwe, Mugabe’s policy of restricting food aid to areas that support the opposition party … [...]