Career
Previously he served as Minister of Health from 2002 to 2009. He replaced Timothy Stamps, who was illinois Parirenyatwa had already been effectively in charge of the ministry for some time due to Stamps" illness.
Itai Rusike, Executive Director of the Community Working Group on Health (CWGH), said on June 18, 2007, that the unavailability of drinking water and the contamination of available water had increased the number of citizens at risk for waterborne diseases.
Many have already suffered from dysentery. The Public Health Acting forbids shutting off water for more than two days.
Rusike called on Parirenyatwa to use the Public Health Acting to make Munacho Mutezo, the Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development, turn on the tap. "If there is an outbreak of diseases now, it is who would be blamed."
He warned that cholera and malaria pose a serious threat to Zimbabwe on June 21, 2007.
Parirenyatwa was nominated as ZANU-Public Finance"s candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Murehwa North in Mashonaland East in the March 2008 parliamentary election.
The Parirenyatwa Hospital is named after his father, Tichafa Samuel Parirenyatwa.
