1/6 Under the Legislative Programme, Cabinet considered and approved the following: the Occupational Safety and Health Bill, 2025; and the Ratification of the Treaty between the Republic of Zimbabwe.
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5/6 The new legislation will result in the promotion of occupational safety and health through the elimination of occupational accidents, injuries, diseases and fatalities at the workplace.
Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe tells IOM director general Amy Pope that stats from the UK revealed that btwn June 2023 & June 2024, 35 938 Zimbos were granted work visas to the UK, mostly as healthcare workers.
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"I was a moving grave but am now well. I never want to go back to the hospital because it broke my heart that they failed to give me a single tablet," breast cancer patient Agnes Kativhu (67) on Zim public health system
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Govt says has collected US$30,8m from special surtax on sugar content in beverages since the gazetting of SI 16 of 2024, the Customs and Excise (Tariff) (Amendment) Notice, 2024 (No 5) on Feb 9, 2024, to date.
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JUST IN: Government has amassed US$30.8 million from collection of special surtax levied on sugar content in beverages since its introduction early this year, in what authorities claimed as meant to raise financial resources to procure cancer treatment equipment.
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George Guvamatanga, the Permanent Secretary for @ZimTreasury, made the disclosure on Friday 13 December 2024, in a letter written to lawyers representing @ZadhrDoctors, which had initially requested to be furnished with information detailing the total amount of sugar tax
1/2 ZIM has a shortfall of 64 000 health care workers, a Cabinet minister has said, adding that the country needs to double the workforce by 2028 to meet healthcare needs of its citizens.
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1/3 Nurse Matare is one of only two health care workers in the clinic that are trained in cervical cancer prevention and screening.
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2/3 After 10 years of working in the provincial hospital, she chose to come back here to serve her community.