Perennial power cuts choke health delivery system

“The worst was seeing a new-born baby dying, and I couldn’t do anything because we didn’t have any source of power,” David Masara, nurse-in-charge at Budiriro Polyclinic in Harare, said.

His account is a tip of an iceberg on the impact of the country’s rolling power cuts on the health sector. 

The perennial electricity power shortages have seriously affected the health delivery system countrywide. 

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