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Member of Parliament for Matabeleland North, <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Ruth_Labode">Ruth Labode</a>, has said COVID-19 cases are on the rise and the Minister of Health Child Care must declare that people start wearing masks again.
Labode, who is a medical doctor and also chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care, raised a point of order in the National Assembly on Tuesday, 13 June demanding that wearing masks should be made mandatory to curb new COVID-19 infections. She said, as quoted by <a href="https://insiderzim.com/covid-is-back-in-zimbabwe-it-does-not-want-elections/">The Insider</a>:
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On a point of order. I am really sorry I have to say this. I was at Mpilo Hospital yesterday and I noticed in Bulawayo a lot of people were wearing masks and I asked.
They said, “Doctor can you go to Mpilo?” I went to Mpilo and a doctor took me to an isolation centre that was supposed to be for cardiac diseases and it has been converted to isolate children with COVID.
When a child who is 3 years has COVID, how many people have been infected who were looking after that child?
He then said to me even pregnant mothers, because COVID is on the increase. If you do not trigger an alarm now, you will go to elections under lockdown.
The Minister must declare now that start wearing masks because COVID is back. For sure COVID is back and it does not want elections.
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The Government recently officially lifted the mandatory wearing of masks and the requirement for tourists to produce COVID-19 vaccination certificates and negative PCR tests at the country’s points of entry.
Through Statutory Instrument 102 of 2023, Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Constantino Chiwenga directed the scrapping of the mandatory wearing of masks.
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COVID-19 Is Back, It Does Not Want Elections - MP Labode

Members of Parliament are pushing for the proposed Medical Services Amendment Bill to make provision for adolescents to access sexual reproductive health care services independent of their parents and guardians, reported <a href="https://cite.org.zw/mps-push-for-adolescents-access-to-sexual-health-service/">CITE</a>.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), adolescence is the phase of life between childhood and adulthood, from ages 10 to 19.
Lawmakers say some young people succumb to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) because they fear approaching their parents and asking them to accompany them to health facilities for treatment.
Health and Child Care Parliamentary Portfolio Committee chairperson, Dr. Ruth Labode, said the Bill should include a clause that allows adolescent girls to access contraceptives. She said:
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The issue of access to health services for adolescents has become like a broken record in which the Ministry of Health seems to be helpless. They cannot help it.
We know that our teenagers are indulging in drugs and drugs lead to you losing your capacity to control your body. This is where you hear vuzu parties, multiple partner sex.
I am saying we hear of vuzu parties where young people ages 13 to 14 are having multiple client sex, being infected and getting pregnant.
It is almost like we live in two worlds. The Ministry of Health and Child Care lives in some heaven of some kind and we live with these things every day.
We read them, they are in the press and yet we fail to do one thing, that is to handle Section 35 of the Public Health Act which restricts the child, a 15-year old, from going to get health services – yet we know because of the life they are leading, they end up with STIs and you expect a parent to take a child to the hospital and say my child has been infected with an STI, please attend to him.
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Dr. Labode said while they conducted public hearings on the Bill, adolescents demanded free medical care saying as children, they do not have money. She said:
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It is really sad. If you look at the numbers, the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education said 10 000 pupils did not come back because of teenage pregnancies.
What are we waiting for? What exactly do you want? You want them to come and demonstrate at Kaguvi Building so that you see that the children are getting pregnant?
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MP from Matabeleland North under the Proportional Representation, Lwazi Sibanda, said young people get should be given contraceptives to prevent pregnancies otherwise they will end up going for backyard abortion. She said:
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There is no one who can say children should abort or that children should bear their own children.
A child should go to the hospital on her/his own to get help, be it she wants tablets to prevent pregnancy.
Madam Speaker Ma’am, what more the street kids, do you not see that these children now are getting pregnant because the Minister is saying children should not go on their own to the hospital?.
If we say children should not go to the hospital on their own –  what are we saying? Some of them are now going for backyard abortions and dying and for some of them, their wombs are getting damaged.
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MPs Push For Adolescents’ Access To Sexual Health Services

Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care chairperson Ruth Labode said that the levels of teenage pregnancies in Zimbabwe have reached epidemic levels, with thousands of teenagers forced to quit school after falling pregnant.
Contributing to a discussion in the National Assembly on Wednesday on what action responsible authorities must take regarding underage children who die while giving birth, Labode said the scourge of teenage pregnancies will not end unless urgent action is taken. She said:
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Madam Speaker, I am hurt and shocked that the levels of teenage pregnancies in Zimbabwe have reached epidemic levels and for us to sit here and pretend there is a social norm or a family core that will deal with that issue is very sad.
I remember Minister (Sithembiso) Nyoni came to this House and presented a report of 55 000 teenage girls who got pregnant within a month.
The report on Education said 10 000 teenage girls left school because of pregnancies and we sit here and pretend it is something that will just disappear.
What I am saying is that we have a serious problem at hand.
We need to do everything within our power and deal with Section 35 of the Public Health Act.
We know that our young women are indulging in sex. Why do we want to pretend that they should not go to health facilities and get that service that can serve them? We have to do something.
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This follows the death of a Grade 7 pupil from Katanga, Norton, a small town in Mashonaland West Province, who died while giving birth in Bikita on 04 October 2022.
Nokutenda Hwaramba, who was 15, died at an apostolic church shrine while giving birth.
In July 2021, 14-year-old Anna Machaya died while giving birth at an apostolic shrine in Marange.
In January 2022, 15-year-old Ferby Munyafi of Chiadzwa Village in Marange died from excessive bleeding while delivering. |<a href="https://cite.org.zw/teenage-pregnancies-have-reached-epidemic-levels-labode/"> CITE</a>

Teenage Pregnancies Have Reached Epidemic Levels - Labode

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<h4>Age of sexual consent, setting the record straight</h4>
We have noted with concerned deliberate misinformation of the Zimbabwean public on issues relating to sexual consent.
As the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Health and Child Care, I wish to set the record straight with respect to the issues discussed in our session.
Firstly the Parliamentary Committee did not at any point make the suggestion to the effect of reducing the age of consent from 16 to 12.
In fact, the suggestion was that there be an increase from 16 to 18 in line with the definition of a child provided in section 81 of the Constitution.
However, in pursuit of the full realization of the right to health provided in section 76 of the supreme law, the members in the committee were of the view that the access to medical attention for sexually active minors be reduced from 16 to 12.
The intention is to allow access to sexual reproductive health to minors without the hindrance of the condition of being accompanied by an adult.
We want to assure the nation that discussions will always focus on methods of protecting children as opposed to exposing them.
We, however, note that communication of important discussions in Parliament is still distorted by the few who have access to it, we hope that there will be an investment in accessible media for the majority to watch first hand.
<h4>Hon Ruth Labode(MP) 
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Health and Child Care</h4>
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