{"id":176600,"date":"2024-07-15T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hospitals-owed-zwl11-billion-as-free-user-policy-weighs-down-service-delivery\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T06:15:17","slug":"zimbabwe-hospitals-owed-zwl11-billion-as-free-user-policy-weighs-down-service-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hospitals-owed-zwl11-billion-as-free-user-policy-weighs-down-service-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Hospitals Owed Zwl$11 Billion As Free User Policy Weighs Down Service Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">THE free user policy in public hospitals has resulted in the government debt accumulating to ZWL$11 314 021 087 being total owed to several institutions, the latest Auditor General&#8217;s report notes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Acting Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga said an examination of records for the programme revealed that the Health ministry owed several institutions an amount of ZWL$11 314 021 087 as at December 31, 2023 for services provided to beneficiaries of the government health facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;The amount owed to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407150034.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE free user policy in public hospitals has resulted in the government debt accumulating to ZWL$11 314 021 087 being total owed to several institutions, the latest Auditor General&#8217;s report notes. Acting Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga said an examination of records for the programme revealed that the Health ministry owed several institutions an amount of ZWL$11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6495,8532,6544,4993,257,13456,6470,5188,254,26480,14295,4686,421,49041],"class_list":["post-176600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-delivery","tag-free","tag-hospitals","tag-news","tag-owed","tag-policy","tag-service","tag-south-africa-today","tag-user","tag-weighs","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zwl11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}