Desperate Zimbabweans cross Zambia border for cheaper healthcare, medicines
With essential drugs and specialised care expensive or unavailable, poor Zimbabweans opt to travel long distances to seek treatment.
At 5pm at the Victoria Falls border post, Margaret Tshuma – who has a 24-hour day pass to be in Zambia – is in a rush to return home to Zimbabwe before dusk.
This is not the first time Tshuma, 53, has travelled from her rural home in Diki village, 120km (75 miles) away, to cross into Zambia for the day. It has become a routine trip she makes monthly to buy medication for her husband who has scleritis – an inflammatory condition that affects the outer covering of the eye....