Speaking to
NewsDay at the weekend, a Health ministry official said cancer treatment
machines were critical in the health sector.
“The Health and
Child Care ministry has identified the need to procure cancer treatment
machines, which have been a critical requirement in the health sector since
2018,” Health and Child Care ministry spokesperson Donald Mujiri said.
“The Ministry
of Health has already started the procurement process for the much-needed
cancer treatment machines and has received all the required approvals from the
Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe.”
Government's
response came after NewsDay recently revealed that human rights doctors were
pressing authorities to release information pertaining to the use of the sugar
tax funds.
The doctors were demanding that government should supply them with information on what it used the revenue from the sugar tax. They gave the Health ministry a deadline of January 17 to indicate the equipment bought with funds received from Treasury and the amount received. In a letter dated January 13, 2025 addressed to the Health and Child Care ministry information officer the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) through its lawyers Kantor & Immerman wrote to: “Reference is made to the above matter in which we filed our client’s request for information on December 16, 2024. We note that no acknowledgement of request, let alone the requested information, has been received by us. Newsday
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