Medical aid societies (MAS) in Zimbabwe cover a tenth of the population, and about 80% of income to private health care providers in Zimbabwe comes from MAS. They contribute more than 20% of the country's total health expenditure. This paper outlines the flows of privatecapital that lie ...
front) poses with members of the 20th Chinese medical team after a medal awarding ceremony in Harare, Zimbabwe, March 11, 2024. As Zimbabwe bade farewell to the eleven members of the 20th Chinese medical team with medals and heartful speeches at a ceremony here on Monday, the new aid team...
Alongside the group, Zimbabwe received medical aid, consisting of ventilators, nucleic acid testing kits, masks, and biosecurity suits. A Chinese medical staff arrived on May 11 in Zimbabwe to assist the African nation to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Medical and dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association president Johannes Marisa said doctors were running losses by accepting medical policies under the inflationary economic environment."Ordinarily, medical aid companies can pay for their clients within 60 days," Marisa said."Given the current...
The parastatal’s corporate communications officer Mr Joseph Katete yesterday confirmed that his organisation now had a medical aid scheme for farmers under Agrimed. “We introduced a medical aid scheme for farmers under Agrimed, which started as an in-house scheme for GMB workers in 2000 before ...
s monies and can now move to another line of business which does the same thing. Now, because there is that freedom in that sector where people have not enough confidence to supervise the credential soundness of those companies, they will just move to medical aid societies and run away from...
“Shortfalls come in when the tariff set by the medical aid company is lower than the market price. The difference is what the patient has to pay. Medical aid companies may set a price basing on the cheapest supplier on the market at that time. ...
"Given the billions mentioned are in Zimbabwe dollars and the medical aid society covers hundreds of thousands of members, it is important to look at the individual cover the Commission is providing to its members. "The $6.3 billion paying for over 750 000 members over a year means each memb...
The valuations of pharma and biotech companies in the public and M&A markets soared up until August/September of this year in part because of these positive developments. More recently, there has been a setback in public valuations due to the negative publicity about drug pricing. ...
This work is supported by the Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology (KO), Strategic International Cooperative Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency (KO), and Grant-in-Aid for Scientifi c Research on the Priority Area “Regulation of Nano-systems in Cells”...