Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Zimbabwe Health Care System 'In Ruins' Says US Physicians Group

From Voice Of America:

The U.S. based organization Physicians for Human Rights has called on the United Nations to assume stewardship of Zimbabwe’s collapsed health system to prevent further loss of life.

The Cambridge, Massachusetts, based group also urged that the humanitarian disaster in Zimbabwe, where a cholera epidemic compounded by the collapse of the state health system late last year has claimed nearly 2,000 lives, should be referred to the International Criminal Court to consider indicting top Harare officials for crimes against humanity.

"The collapse of Zimbabwe's health system in 2008 is unprecedented in scale and scope," said the report, entitled "Health In Ruins: A Man-Made Disaster in Zimbabwe."

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