Doctors’ Strike: Army takes over hospitals

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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean soldiers have been deployed to major public hospitals in the country following a week-long strike by junior doctors who are demanding an increase in call allowances and a duty free car facility.

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Gerald Gwinji, said the doctors’ strike had put pressure on public hospitals, which were already struggling with shortages of drugs and under-funding from the government.

“When some people are not coming to work there is bound to be an impact on service delivery and because these cadres (doctors) on strike are at the first level of care, the impact is even greater,” Gwinji said.

“In some instances we have deployed cadres from the uniformed forces to help in reducing the pressure.”

The president of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, Edgar Munatsi, which called the strike told…

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