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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 87639, member: 27"] Luxury vehicle loans for just seven doctors sparked a firestorm while Harare's entire health system runs on fumes. Harare's doctor car loan controversy [LIST] [*]Harare City Council proposed facilitating top-of-the-range vehicle loans for its physicians. [*]Mayor Jacob Mafume clarified that the council facilitates financing, not direct purchases. [*]Doctors already met acting finance director Godfrey Kusangaya on the loan details. [*]Only seven doctors currently serve the entire city's health system. [/LIST] Scale of the healthcare crisis [LIST] [*]Fourteen polyclinics handle roughly 100,000 patients every month. [*]About 3,000 babies get delivered monthly across those facilities. [*]Patients skip run-down primary clinics and flood quaternary hospitals instead. [*]Parirenyatwa and Sally Mugabe hospitals bear the overflow burden. [/LIST] Residents Trust fires back hard [LIST] [*]Precious Shumba called the scheme another avenue for looting public funds. [*]His group flagged procurement corruption through inflated-price proxy contracts. [*]Salary payments reportedly fell three months behind at one point. [*]Shumba argued the vehicle spend sits completely outside the 2026 budget. [/LIST] Deeper structural complaints [LIST] [*]Brain drain gets blamed for the staffing collapse across council clinics. [*]Shumba accused Mafume of cherry-picking which worker grades get perks. [*]Development Studio Africa's master plan flagged the poorly structured health setup. [*]Critics say the mayor exploits the crisis to look like a benefactor. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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