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Zimbabwe denies citizens right to health, group says

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   January 14, 2009

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government should be investigated for crimes against humanity for overseeing and ignoring the breakdown of the nation's healthcare system, an international doctors group said in a report. The cholera outbreak gripping the country is just one sign of the disintegration of a once-admired healthcare structure that essentially ceased to function in late 2008, according to U.S.-based Physicians for Human Rights.

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