‘Zim health spending continues to shrink’

GOVERNMENT expenditure on health is shrinking each year, owing to misappropriation of funds, a latest report on illicit financial flows by Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z) has revealed.

In the report, TI-Z stated that government expenditure on the health sector was way below the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended US$86 per capita or 5% of gross domestic product.

In the first six months of last year, government spent US$1,64 per citizen, way below the US$110 spent in 2017, according to TI-Z.

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