{"id":248721,"date":"2026-10-31T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-takes-over-village-health-workers-salaries\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:30:06","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-takes-over-village-health-workers-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-takes-over-village-health-workers-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Takes Over Village Health Workers&#8217; Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Government has started absorbing village health workers into the Ministry of Health and Child Care payroll in a move aimed at reducing reliance on donor funding and strengthening community-based healthcare services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Health and Child Care Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora said Treasury had already approved posts for the workers, paving the way for their transition to the government payroll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The development comes as monthly allowances for village health workers have increased from US$14 to US$35&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610300288.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Government has started absorbing village health workers into the Ministry of Health and Child Care payroll in a move aimed at reducing reliance on donor funding and strengthening community-based healthcare services. Health and Child Care Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora said Treasury had already approved posts for the workers, paving the way for their transition [&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":[258,256,4357,5731,257,19058,254,5056,10217,6498,4686,421],"class_list":["post-248721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-govt","tag-health","tag-news","tag-salaries","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes","tag-village","tag-workers","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248721","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=248721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248721\/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=248721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}