Treasury rapped for by-passing Health Ministry

THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care yesterday rapped the Ministry of Finance for by-passing the Health ministry and directly allocating funds to church-run hospitals.

Committee chairperson Ruth Labode said some officials at mission-run hospitals had taken advantage of the discrepancy to abuse the funds. This came out when Zimbabwe Association of Church related Hospitals (ZACH) executive director Vuyelwa Sidile-Chitimbire appeared before the committee and was grilled over misuse of $700 000 by officials at Mnene Mission Hospital in Mberengwa, Midlands.

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