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Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Senior Reporter
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care has met with the European Union Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen to discuss several areas of cooperation in the health sector.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, the Vice President said they had covered a wide range of topics including financial assistance extended to Zimbabwe in the past, co-operation in ongoing programmes as well as issues surrounding transparency and accountability in relation to funds availed by the bloc to Zimbabwe.
“We concentrated on our health sector in Zimbabwe; the support we are getting from the EU. There have been programmes going as far back as 2006 where they have been supporting us right up to the new programmes we have been coming up with. More important is the issue of transparency and accountability. We wanted to address some of the shortfalls which were taking place in the past,” he said.
He said the discussions had also covered new programmes that are supposed to start this year although the final decision on the nature of assistance to be extended would lie with Brussels.
Ambassador Olkkonen said the discussions had been a good platform to exchange notes on past and ongoing EU support to the country’s health sector.
He said discussions had also covered EU support to Zimbabwe’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing vaccination programme.
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