{"id":12142,"date":"2026-02-16T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=12142"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:40:06","slug":"mutare-city-council-reduces-maternity-fees-appoints-full-time-doctor-at-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=12142","title":{"rendered":"Mutare City Council reduces maternity fees, appoints full-time doctor at clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zim GBC News | National Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MUTARE City Council has slashed maternity and consultation charges and appointed a full-time doctor at its health centres, a move civic organisations say will dramatically improve access to healthcare for residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made during a Local Accountability for Citizen Engagement (LACE) community interface meeting, jointly organised by the Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) and the United Mutare Residents and Ratepayers Trust (UMRRT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session, which also included representatives from the Mutare Informal Traders Association (MITA), provided a platform for residents to scrutinise the council&#8217;s 2026 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presenting the approved budget, finance manager Mr Seth Manyara revealed that, for the first time, the local authority has secured a dedicated doctor for its council clinics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have, for the first time, secured a dedicated doctor for our council clinics,&#8221; Mr Manyara announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fee reductions and new doctor appointment are intended to ease financial pressure on residents and improve healthcare delivery across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development comes at a time when residents have been bearing the brunt of high consultation fees and maternity charges at private clinics, as well as overcrowding at public hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FOLLOW US FOR REAL-TIME UPDATES:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>X (Twitter): @ZimGbc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Instagram: @ZimGBCNews<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TikTok: @ZimGBCNews_01<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facebook: Zim GBC News<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>YouTube: Zim GBC News<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Get real-time alerts on WhatsApp:<br>+263 773 820 323<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News | Global News From An African Perspective\u00a9\ufe0f2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zim GBC News | National Health MUTARE City Council has slashed maternity and consultation charges and appointed a full-time doctor at its health centres, a move civic organisations say will&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12144,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions\/12144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}