ZIMBABWE’S HOSPITALS HAVE BECOME GRAVEYARDS UNDER ZANU PF

Zimbabwe’s health system is now dead. As a political activist, I have seen and spoken about many failures by ZANU PF, but what is happening in our hospitals is one of the worst. The country is dying slowly, and the government does not care. What was once a working health system has now collapsed. After 45 years of ZANU PF rule, Zimbabwe is now worse than it was before independence.

A picture has been going around showing a patient in a government hospital with a broken leg wrapped in cardboard and tape. Yes, cardboard! No plaster. No proper treatment. This is real. This is what Zimbabwe has become. Our hospitals are not hospitals anymore. They are just empty buildings where people go to wait for death.

There are no medicines, no bandages, no painkillers. Many hospitals do not even have clean water. This is not just a small problem. It is a disaster. Nurses and doctors are leaving every day. They go to South Africa, the UK, or Australia to work in better places. In Zimbabwe, they are not paid well, and they have nothing to use to treat patients. So, they leave. And we are left with very few workers, and most of them are tired, angry, and hopeless.

This is how people are dying. People who could have been saved. Children, pregnant women, the elderly – all of them are at risk. Something as small as a headache or fever can kill you in Zimbabwe now. You go to the hospital and find nothing. The nurses may be there, but they have no tools. No drugs. No equipment. Nothing.

Back in 2008, cholera killed more than 4,000 people. We thought it was the worst thing that could happen. But again, in 2023 and 2024, cholera came back and killed over 700 people. Why? Because nothing changed. The ZANU PF government never fixed anything. They allowed the same thing to happen again. It’s like they don’t care. And this is not just about cholera. There are many other diseases killing people quietly.

The truth is, Zimbabwe cannot even fund its own health system. A quarter of the money for healthcare comes from other countries. The UK, Sweden, Ireland – they are the ones keeping our hospitals alive. Through UNICEF and other groups, they help us. They provide medicine, support pregnant women, and fight diseases like HIV and malaria. But how long will they continue?

The United States used to help too, through PEPFAR. But they are now cutting their help. This will hurt Zimbabwe badly. Many people will suffer even more. They will die in silence, forgotten by their government.

I am an activist because I cannot keep quiet when people are dying like this. ZANU PF has destroyed this country. Our hospitals, schools, roads – everything is broken. We are going back to the Stone Age. What kind of leader watches while people are treated with cardboard instead of proper care?

In rural areas, the situation is even worse. Some people walk for hours to reach a hospital, only to find there is no doctor, no nurse, no medicine. Sometimes they return home and die there. This is what Zimbabwe has become.

We are fighting for change. We want a country where a broken leg gets a plaster, not cardboard. We want a country where hospitals are for healing, not for dying. We want leaders who care, not looters who fly overseas for treatment while our people suffer.

ZANU PF must go. For Zimbabwe to heal, we need new leaders. We need democracy. We need freedom. The health crisis is just one example of how far we have fallen. But we must rise. For the sake of our people, we must rise.