{"id":25427,"date":"2020-07-18T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T20:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=25427"},"modified":"2020-07-18T22:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T20:20:24","slug":"zimbabwe-doctors-to-join-nurses-on-strike-as-virus-cases-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-doctors-to-join-nurses-on-strike-as-virus-cases-rise","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe doctors to join nurses on strike as virus cases rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A medical staff member wearing protective equipment places a face mask on a mock patient at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare on 11 March 2020. Picture: AFP<br \/>\nHARARE \u2013 Senior doctors in Zimbabwe\u2019s public health service have threatened to walk out over low pay and lack of coronavirus protective gear, in the latest dispute to plague the country\u2019s battered health system.<\/p>\n<p>Some 15,000 nurses have been on strike for two weeks over wages that have been hit by galloping inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus infections are rising rapidly, reaching 1,089 cases including 20 fatalities, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are finding it difficult to continue offering services in our work stations because of a number of challenges\u2026 for which no solution has been proffered,\u201d the Zimbabwe Senior Hospital Doctors\u2019 Association said.<\/p>\n<p>Its notice to strike, seen by AFP on Thursday, takes effect in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Price rises in Zimbabwe are running at more than 700%, eroding salaries and savings and reigniting memories of hyperinflation a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week axed the health minister, Obadiah Moyo, over corruption allegations involving medical procurement worth US$60 million.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, the Health Services Board fired the heads of five state hospitals in what it termed \u201ca restructuring exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medical staff member wearing protective equipment places a face mask on a mock patient at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare on 11 March 2020. 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