The US$4bn silence: Why Zim’s medical hub ambitions depend on ending the gag order

OVER the past decade, Zimbabwe has haemorrhaged more than US$4 billion in a desperate exodus for health.  

Each year, roughly 200 000 citizens pack their bags for India, South Africa, China and Singapore, taking US$400 million with them. [Cited in Zimbabwe’s National Development Strategy (NDS1)] 

This is not merely a flight of capital; it is a vote of no confidence in a domestic system starved of equipment and essential medicines. 

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