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Zimbabwe’s major hospitals are operating with acting CEOs nearly two years after the health services board conducted interviews, ZimLive can reveal.
Five CEOs at Zimbabwe’s major public hospitals were forced out in 2020 after the health ministry said it was reforming how hospital chiefs are appointed, with a new requirement that they should be senior medical doctors.
Interviews were conducted in June 2020 to replace them, but two years on the hospitals are still under caretaker leadership which health campaigners say is hampering long-term planning at the institutions.
The acting CEOs oversaw the worst of Covid-19 – but there are no guarantees any will be retained when the ministry of health finally appoints the successful candidates.
A senior doctor said: “It’s not the way to run public hospitals, especially during a time of multiple crises when the hospital leadership must have the flexibility and authority to make tough decisions in the interests of public health.”
Health minister Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the vice president, is inaccessible to journalists. His deputy Dr John Mangwiro and the ministry’s secretary Dr Jasper Chimedza had not responded to questions left for them. ZimLive
