Reports have emerged that Mashonaland East province, the home of Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa, has the highest concentration of village health workers compared to other provinces.
It emerged when permanent secretary for the ministry Gerald Gwinji was giving oral evidence before the Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care that Mashonaland East province had more than 2 200 village health workers while some provinces had as little as 120.
Gwinji attempted to defend the figures and said they had trained more than 1 200 village health workers that were to be deployed to cover up for shortfalls in other areas.
The committee told Gwinji that it was not satisfied with the explanation and tasked him to compile a report on the issue in writing.
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