Zimbabwe health sector on the brink

THE country’s health sector was yesterday left teetering on the brink of collapse after nurses joined a two-week-long wild-cat strike by medical practitioners, leaving a dire situation within the public health system.

The operation of public hospitals has suffered another blow as nurses have also downed their tools after talks with the Health ministry collapsed on Thursday. Health practitioners have been on strike for over two weeks now and are demanding an increase in on-call allowances and an improvement in their working conditions.

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