{"id":229898,"date":"2026-04-09T02:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mp-demands-urgent-action-on-rural-maternal-health-care\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:34:19","slug":"zimbabwe-mp-demands-urgent-action-on-rural-maternal-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mp-demands-urgent-action-on-rural-maternal-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: MP Demands Urgent Action On Rural, Maternal Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">AS the world marked World Health Day on Tuesday, legislator Mutsa Murombedzi challenged the National Assembly to prioritise rural and maternal health care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Mashonaland West Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) proportional representation MP urged lawmakers to treat healthcare as a constitutional obligation rather than a privilege.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;Health is not a luxury, but it is a Constitutional right and a matter of national survival,&#8221; Murombedzi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604080449.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>AS the world marked World Health Day on Tuesday, legislator Mutsa Murombedzi challenged the National Assembly to prioritise rural and maternal health care. The Mashonaland West Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) proportional representation MP urged lawmakers to treat healthcare as a constitutional obligation rather than a privilege. &#8220;Health is not a luxury, but it is [&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":[6394,258,256,5732,6979,5731,10165,257,6309,254,11318,4686,421],"class_list":["post-229898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-care","tag-demands","tag-health","tag-maternal","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229898","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=229898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229898\/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=229898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}