Zimbabwe Doctors Join Nurses On Strike Over Lack Of Coronavirus Protection

Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association president Tawanda Zvakada and association treasurer Tapiwa Mungofa addressing the media during a press conference at the Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare on March 26, 2020, where they vowed to boycott work unless the government provides protective gear to combat the COVID-19 coronavirus. Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP.

“We have made a call for safety, to say whilst we are sorting out some things, for now let’s… withdraw our services temporarily,” Tapiwa Mungofa, treasurer of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association , told reporters in Harare.Some 15,000 hospital nurses downed tools on Wednesday over a lack of protective gear and water shortages.

The health workers walkout, “locked up” Harare Central Hospital, one of the country’s main referral hospitals for the poor and the working class.The southern African country’s public health system has been in a state of near-collapse for years, but the lack of drugs and equipment has pushed the system to the brink during the coronavirus spread.

Mungofa said doctors will resume duty “as soon as our safety as health care workers is guaranteed, we are ready to serve the Zimbabwean population, we are ready to fight this coronavirus”.A 30-year-old broadcaster died on Monday, less than two days after he tested positive for COVID-19. His family said the isolation facility where he died had neither the drugs nor a ventilator needed to treat his condition.

African leaders are so hopeless, clueless & generally self-centred yet they hold onto power so firmly.

Nigerians, Do something for the Zimbabwe doctors since there leader are still sleeping....

Pls save the society and manage what u have,

That will be a burial ground of COVID19. Why do our African leaders find it so difficult to do the needful? It is not a brain surgery. It is the best to do. Ha!

Mad oh

Nawaooo at this critical time. God have mercy

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