{"id":193520,"date":"2025-03-14T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-we-had-already-planned-to-take-over-says-govt-on-health-sector-following-trumps-unexpected-orders\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:07:09","slug":"zimbabwe-we-had-already-planned-to-take-over-says-govt-on-health-sector-following-trumps-unexpected-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-we-had-already-planned-to-take-over-says-govt-on-health-sector-following-trumps-unexpected-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: We Had Already Planned to Take Over &#8211; Says Govt On Health Sector Following Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Unexpected&#8217; Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">STRUGGLING to provide basics at public hospitals, government has sensationally claimed it had already decided to &#8216;takeover&#8217; the health sector before American President Donald Trump&#8217;s unexpected executive order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Trump, on January 20, ordered a 90-day freeze on all funding and a programme-by-programme review of all activities financed through USAID, America&#8217;s largest humanitarian organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">With it playing a central role in public health services provision in Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130174.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>STRUGGLING to provide basics at public hospitals, government has sensationally claimed it had already decided to &#8216;takeover&#8217; the health sector before American President Donald Trump&#8217;s unexpected executive order. Trump, on January 20, ordered a 90-day freeze on all funding and a programme-by-programme review of all activities financed through USAID, America&#8217;s largest humanitarian organisation. With it [&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":[258,256,4357,5731,257,6186,7665,5991,254,9387,29766,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-govt","tag-health","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-planned","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trumps","tag-unexpected","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193520","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=193520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193520\/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=193520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}