Zimbabwe specialist doctors join junior counterparts in strike
The move is set to worsen an already critical health situation in the country, where even basic foodstuffs are in short supply
27 November 2019 - 11:36
Specialist senior doctors, who are helping keep public hospitals running during the two-month strike by junior doctors, have themselves decided to join in the stay away in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe’s public health centres are facing collapse after the specialist senior doctors said on Tuesday that they would stop attending to emergencies in solidarity with the 500 doctors who were sacked by the government for joining the strike...
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