{"id":232209,"date":"2026-05-03T04:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-international-workers-day-cwgh-calls-for-urgent-health-investment-warns-of-rising-diseases-and-worker-risks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:01:07","slug":"zimbabwe-international-workers-day-cwgh-calls-for-urgent-health-investment-warns-of-rising-diseases-and-worker-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-international-workers-day-cwgh-calls-for-urgent-health-investment-warns-of-rising-diseases-and-worker-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: International Workers&#8217; Day &#8211; CWGH Calls for Urgent Health Investment, Warns of Rising Diseases and Worker Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has warned that Zimbabwe is sitting on a &#8220;growing powder keg&#8221; of disease and a failing public health system, calling for urgent investment in healthcare and stronger protections for workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a statement issued to mark International Workers&#8217; Day, the health advocacy group said Zimbabwe&#8217;s health workers are increasingly exposed to preventable diseases, unsafe working conditions and an overstretched health delivery system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;We commemorate those lost to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010229.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 Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has warned that Zimbabwe is sitting on a &#8220;growing powder keg&#8221; of disease and a failing public health system, calling for urgent investment in healthcare and stronger protections for workers. In a statement issued to mark International Workers&#8217; Day, the health advocacy group said Zimbabwe&#8217;s health workers are [&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":[258,256,6137,32094,7165,11232,5731,4337,6018,257,6678,7349,254,11318,6853,8196,6498,4686,421],"class_list":["post-232209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-cwgh","tag-day","tag-diseases","tag-health","tag-international","tag-investment","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent","tag-warns","tag-worker","tag-workers","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232209","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=232209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232209\/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=232209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}