Pregnant women are failing to go for checkups due to poor road networks and far spaced healthcare centres. Image by Womensenews
BY NOKUTHABA DLAMINI | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | DEC 10, 2020
Poor access to health facilities in Matabeleland North is a perennial problem, the advent of COVID-19 has significantly reduced the number of pregnant women who go to hospital, a major concern for a country with a high child mortality rate.
Pregnant women are failing to go for checkups due to poor road networks and far spaced healthcare centres. Image by Womensenews
BY NOKUTHABA DLAMINI | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | DEC 10, 2020
Poor access to health facilities in Matabeleland North is a perennial problem, the advent of COVID-19 has significantly reduced the number of pregnant women who go to hospital, a major concern for a country with a high child mortality rate.
Homestead completely destroyed in Nsungwale, Sinakoma Ward in Binga after heavy floods in February this year. Image by International Organisation for Migration
BY NOKUTHABA DLAMINI | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | OCT 16, 2020
Flooding earlier this year displaced a community in Binga, COVID-19 became a bigger blow, cutting them from the world and alienating them. The villagers have fled camps set up for them by the government and nonprofit entities reportedly to engage in unauthorized activities. They say they have been abandoned and forgotten; they just want to rebuild what they have lost.
Homestead completely destroyed in Nsungwale, Sinakoma Ward in Binga after heavy floods in February this year. Image by International Organisation for Migration
BY NOKUTHABA DLAMINI | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | OCT 16, 2020
Flooding earlier this year displaced a community in Binga, COVID-19 became a bigger blow, cutting them from the world and alienating them. The villagers have fled camps set up for them by the government and nonprofit entities reportedly to engage in unauthorized activities. They say they have been abandoned and forgotten; they just want to rebuild what they have lost.
According to Zimbabwe's Cancer Association breast cancer alone claims more than one thousand women every year. Image by Hotze Runkle
BY NOKUTHABA DLAMINI | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | OCT 18, 2021
For many cancer patients, without money and a functional health system, their fate is already sealed.
