{"id":197215,"date":"2025-05-01T23:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-healthcare-system-needs-urgent-action-cwgh-says-in-workers-day-message\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T23:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:46:37","slug":"zimbabwes-healthcare-system-needs-urgent-action-cwgh-says-in-workers-day-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-healthcare-system-needs-urgent-action-cwgh-says-in-workers-day-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Healthcare System Needs Urgent Action &#8211; CWGH Says in Workers Day Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">COMMUNITY Working Group on Health (CWGH) has called for urgent action to address corruption and exploitation within the country&#8217;s healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a Workers Day statement, CWGH said the government must implement clear and practical measures to not only meet the urgent needs of the health sector but also prepare for the withdrawal of key international donors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s health sector is generally poorly funded and relies heavily on the support of Western development partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The crisis in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505010098.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>COMMUNITY Working Group on Health (CWGH) has called for urgent action to address corruption and exploitation within the country&#8217;s healthcare system. In a Workers Day statement, CWGH said the government must implement clear and practical measures to not only meet the urgent needs of the health sector but also prepare for the withdrawal of key [&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":[6394,258,256,32094,7165,12370,8147,257,254,7232,11318,6498,421,7726],"class_list":["post-197215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cwgh","tag-day","tag-healthcare","tag-message","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system","tag-urgent","tag-workers","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197215","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=197215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197215\/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=197215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}