33 It will also be important for treatment to be included as part of the compensation process, and for the health service of the state to be made part of the treatment process. This again could revolve around the kind of programme suggested for the ZNLWVA, using nurse therapists and mental health professionals as supervisors and trainers. The results reported above can only be taken as a beginning, and it is very clear that considerably more work is needed before we can have both a good understanding of the health consequences of the organised violence that has afflicted Zimbabwe. It is also clear that healing the injured and the disordered will be a task of social reconstruction of some magnitude.

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