Emergency Numbers - Please Answer Them

There’s a sickness that permeates our service providers. This has been going on for years. In fact, this sickness has been with us longer than the indefatigable state of emergency which is the longest thing known to mankind.

In the interest of accuracy, I will define mankind as people who reside approximately south of Zimbabwe and Zambia, north of South Africa, east of Namibia. As the 4IR slowly creeps in, I will be able to give you the right geographic position using the GPS system. I am a laggard and that means this could be a good 15 years from now. I am not proud of this.

Laggards are never proud of this fear of embracing new things. This sickness is the inability to answer the emergency line and the slow response to an emergency. The state of emergency just kept getting elongated longer than Pinocchio’s nose. Just when we thought it was over, it came again in another six-month spurt.

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Routine child vaccination imperative

The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...

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