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Girls participants holding certificates at Cimas Healthathon 3.0
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Healthathon 3.0: What Zimbabwe’s Health Innovation Challenge Is Telling Us

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa Two weeks ago, Cimas Health Group hosted the third edition of its Healthathon, bringing together innovators, students, health professionals and technology enthusiasts to showcase solutions to some of Zimbabwe’s healthcare challenges. Beyond the pitches, prototypes and competition for the top prize, Healthathon 3.0 offered something perhaps more important: a window into how

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Dr Aspect Maunganidze, Permanent Secretary for Health and Child Care, addresses the Health Sector Working Group meeting in Harare.
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Zimbabwe Creates New Medical Services Directorate to Strengthen Specialist and Emergency Care

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care has established a new Directorate of Medical Services as part of a restructuring exercise aimed at strengthening the coordination and delivery of specialist, emergency and surgical services. Speaking at the Surgical Society of Zimbabwe Annual Conference, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Child

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