Patients dying due to drug, equipment shortages in Zimbabwe

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Nurses had to wash and re-use bandages due to a lack of basic supplies and medicine in Zimbabwe's biggest state hospital.

"I am just seeing patients, make a diagnosis and send them away to die," said gynaecological oncologist Bothwell Guzha, adding that the hospital had no cancer drugs left.

Plans to float a new transitional local currency introduced last month, the RTGS dollar, have been delayed.

 

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