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JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa — Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government should be investigated for crimes against humanity for overseeing and ignoring the breakdown of the nation’s health care system, an international doctors’ group said in a report released Tuesday.
The country’s cholera outbreak is one sign of the disintegration of a once-admired health care structure that ceased to function in late 2008, denying Zimbabweans their human right to health care, according to U.S.-based Physicians for Human Rights.
According to its study, the health care that two decades ago lay within 6 miles of 85 percent of the population is now all but gone, while only a tiny elite can afford private care.
