No Treatment for Ill as Zimbabwe Doctors Strike (OneWorld.net)


Written on August 24, 2009 – 5:21 pm | by

A patient is taken home on a stretcher by his relatives from Parirenyatwa hospital's accident and emergency ward in the capital Harare August 21, 2009. State doctors, who earn a basic wage of $170, started a job boycott last week demanding $1,000 per month, paralysing operations at the country's four major hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo. Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday the country's public health system was far from recovering after last year's collapse, although there were signs of improvement. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo (ZIMBABWE HEALTH SOCIETY POLITICS)OneWorld.net - BULAWAYO, Aug 24 (IPS) - Before, Zimbabwean families would take their ill relatives to rural clinics where medication was readily able and payment plans lenient. But now they are taking them there to die.

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