{"id":200407,"date":"2025-06-18T13:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-too-many-areas-requiring-urgent-attention-presidential-spokesperson-says-following-mnangagwas-visit-to-public-referral-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:27:53","slug":"zimbabwe-too-many-areas-requiring-urgent-attention-presidential-spokesperson-says-following-mnangagwas-visit-to-public-referral-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-too-many-areas-requiring-urgent-attention-presidential-spokesperson-says-following-mnangagwas-visit-to-public-referral-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Too Many Areas Requiring Urgent Attention &#8211; Presidential Spokesperson Says Following Mnangagwa&#8217;s Visit to Public Referral Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s spokesperson George Charamba, has acknowledged the dire state of Zimbabwe&#8217;s public hospitals, highlighting infrastructure decay, policy gaps and systematic overload.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Charamba was speaking following Mnangagwa&#8217;s visit to Zimbabwe&#8217;s main referral hospitals, Parirenyatwa and Sally Mugabe, on Monday. The visits follow public outcry over the dysfunctional state of public hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Mnangagwa&#8217;s government has long neglected general hospitals, which now face crumbling&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506180166.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>PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s spokesperson George Charamba, has acknowledged the dire state of Zimbabwe&#8217;s public hospitals, highlighting infrastructure decay, policy gaps and systematic overload. Charamba was speaking following Mnangagwa&#8217;s visit to Zimbabwe&#8217;s main referral hospitals, Parirenyatwa and Sally Mugabe, on Monday. The visits follow public outcry over the dysfunctional state of public hospitals. Mnangagwa&#8217;s government has [&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":[258,256,7311,9664,4993,16781,257,6438,5751,12694,29788,254,7181,11318,6250,4686,421],"class_list":["post-200407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-areas","tag-attention","tag-hospitals","tag-mnangagwas","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-public","tag-referral","tag-requiring","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spokesperson","tag-urgent","tag-visit","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200407","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=200407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200407\/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=200407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}