ZANE info

Extracts from Harare Report 16-27 April 2008

Homes:

**** was given permission to put their fees up to 8.5 billion for frail care but this falls far short of what is required to nurse and feed a person for a month. Frail care at **** is over 20 billion this month which gives an indication. Most of the homes are only surviving because of the donated food from SA and local vegetables from **** and ****. Meat is almost impossible to buy in Harare without hard currency or the parallel equivalent, so the homes are finding it more and more difficult to put meat into the weekly diet.

Indivduals:

We are having almost daily calls from people asking for help for individuals and are doing our best to get round to each person and assess their situations.

MEDICAL:

Drugs continue to soar in price bus so far **** has been able to keep finding them. We are increasing our cash available for medical needs and **** has agreed to do likewise. **** is trying to rationalize the drugs requirements of some of the individuals on the **** med aid as he feels that some of them are taking advantage of the system.


**** has a good relationship with most of the private hospitals and is able to get patients admitted with guarantee letters from ****. The costs of surgery are rising daily and the biggest medical insurance company has put up its subscriptions 35 fold as of yesterday, so many of our pensioners will not be able to afford cover any longer.

FOOD:

The food situation remains precarious but not at crisis level yet. We will continue to monitor the situation carefully.



Until next week

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