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Doctors in Zimbabwe have agreed to return to work after accepting a funding offer from a billionaire, ending a prolonged strike.
The strike over pay and poor conditions lasted more than four months, paralysing the country’s healthcare sector.
Last year, Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire Strive Masiyiwa tabled an offer to break the impasse.
Final year medical students in Zimbabwe have expressed concern over how the incapacitation of doctors has affected their studies and the quality of their medical degree.
Government yesterday fired 211 doctors at public hospitals for going o strike to demand better pay, with another 500 at risk.
Zimbabwe’s health system has been plunged deeper into crisis after the country’s Health Service Board discharged an additional 134 doctors for absenting themselves from duty without leave or reasonable cause for days ranging from five or more.
DOCTORS have come out guns blazing after President Emmerson Mnangagwa accused them of being sponsored by foreign hands to destabilise his government through strikes.
Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors’ Association (ZHDA) on Sunday rejected Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo’s directive to report for duty today by 8am or face disciplinary action.
Senior doctors at public hospitals yesterday downed tools as they declared incapacitation, joining their junior counterparts who have been protesting for over a month, in another blow to an already stuttering public health sector.
A group of Zimbabwean doctors marched at the country’s biggest hospital Sunday, demanding the release of one of their leaders who they say was abducted after calling for a pay strike.
Doctors and nurses have issued a 14-day notice to go on strike, saying health workers have had enough of austerity measures.
Hopewell Chin’ono: “There is NO normal human being who could not have been moved by the emotional plea for help by Dr Azza Mashumba who is the Head of Paediatric Medicine at Parirenyatwa Hospital.Hers was a raw and clear reflection of a hidden painful and humiliation treatment of doctors and nurses by our authorities who have tragically failed to deliver where they are expected to.”