Saturday, June 02, 2007

Health service collapse in Zim?

...Zimbabwe's health delivery system has collapsed amid worsening shortages of nursing staff and a doctors strike, a local doctors group said Friday.
Inadequate remuneration and unacceptable working conditions for health workers across the country have resulted in a crisis that has left the country's major referral hospitals unable to function, the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) said in a statement.

The emptying of central and other hospitals of staff, and therefore of patients, means the health service has collapsed, it said. ....

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