{"id":197542,"date":"2025-05-06T23:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-health-ministry-pushes-back-after-ministers-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T23:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:57:44","slug":"zimbabwe-health-ministry-pushes-back-after-ministers-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-health-ministry-pushes-back-after-ministers-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Health Ministry Pushes Back After Minister&#8217;s Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Ministry of Health and Child Care has issued a strongly worded statement in response to comments made by Youth Empowerment Minister Tino Machakaire, who criticised Zimbabwe&#8217;s deteriorating public health system yesterday, calling it a &#8220;national shame&#8221; and demanding urgent action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Machakaire&#8217;s remarks, which have been widely circulated on social media, triggered a rare public rebuttal from the Health Ministry, which described the criticism as part of a &#8220;broader pattern of unwarranted and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505060338.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 Ministry of Health and Child Care has issued a strongly worded statement in response to comments made by Youth Empowerment Minister Tino Machakaire, who criticised Zimbabwe&#8217;s deteriorating public health system yesterday, calling it a &#8220;national shame&#8221; and demanding urgent action. Machakaire&#8217;s remarks, which have been widely circulated on social media, triggered a rare public [&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":[258,256,11451,5731,8788,6857,257,16296,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-197542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-criticism","tag-health","tag-ministers","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-pushes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197542","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=197542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197542\/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=197542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}