Zimbabwe Patients Forced to Pay Cash for treatment as Doctors Reject Medical Insurance

212 views · Published 5 July 2016 · 1:31 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: africanews · 2016 · News & Politics

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Medical doctors in Zimbabwe has announced that patients interested in medical attention in the country will from henceforth  pay cash as  doctors declined to accept medical insurance. 

president of the Zimbabwe Medical Association Dr. Sarah Mahomva said the insurers owe them over $220 million. 

"Doctors see patients, they accept medical aid cards but a number of times they are either not paid or paid way after sixty days or they get paid a very little amount which is not in line with the gazet…
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