Make heathcare essential commodity: Healthcare Funders

THE Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) has appealed to authorities to consider placing healthcare in the essential commodities category, just like fuel, wheat and cooking oil, for ease of access to foreign currency.

AHFoZ said in an effort to reduce the gap between its rates and what other service providers were charging, its rates had been adjusted in February this year
and again in July.

“Regrettably, these increases still fall far short of other service providers’ rates, which vary according to the exchange rate for the day.

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