Babies born on floor as Zimbabwe's health system totters

File: Striking Zimbabwe doctors defied a court order to return to work, saying a pay rise offered by the government failed to meet everyday costs.HARARE - The floor is dusty, the walls filthy and the furniture decrepit, but for two weeks last month a tiny flat in a Harare township was transformed into a maternity clinic where scores of babies were born.

Senior doctors, in a letter last week, said state hospitals had become a"death trap" and warned of a"slow genocide".When the health services strike peaked last month, she came to the rescue."A man came to me and said there were two women in advanced labour at but the place was closed because the nurses were on strike," she told AFP in her two-room flat in Mbare township."I took the other one to my place, where I helped her. The baby survived.

"Everything went very well, she didn't ask us for money," she said, speaking of Gwena, who brought her child into the world.But while some laud Gwena as a selfless do-gooder, doctors worry that she exposed herself, the mothers, the babies to infection. A UN special rapporteur Hilal Elver on food security last week spoke of"disturbing information" that public hospitals had exhausted food stocks, forcing them to seek humanitarian aid and that medical equipment in some cases was"no longer operational".

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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Do you have evidence?

🇿🇦 has learn't alot from Zim..just take land grabs for example, look at the economy and now we will follow hospitals floor births..what can go wrong?

They must sue their government like they do here

Let’s hear the cry of “imperialism” from EFF.

Mxiim ☹️ who cares half of them already using my tax money here

What is that useless President doing for his country? Errr...🤷🏿‍♂️

Ouch Cry my beloved Zim

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