Chikurubi Female Prison faces potential health risk after Parirenyatwa threatens to withdraw services over debt

Chikurubi Female Prison faces a potential health risk after Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals threatened to withdraw services over a $600 000 debt owed by the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS).

One of the resident doctors, Evidence Gaka told members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Women Affairs during a tour of the facility yesterday that Parirenyatwa Hospital was owed $567 000 by ZPCS and might not be able to attend to sick inmates as from next month.  One of the inmates that got a chance to speak with the committee complained  about poor food and sanitation and said:

We do not have meat, sugar ran out in December and beans also ran out last week. Toilets sanitisers and buckets are scarce. Sinks are not working and there is no running water and pipes are down.

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