File: Members of National University of Science and Technology work on specimens in a COVID-19 laboratory testing centre, at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.police arrested more than a dozen nurses and union representatives protesting on Monday outside a hospital in the capital Harare to demand wage increases, the country's largest nurses' union said.
"At least 13 of our members and union leaders were arrested during the demonstration at Harare hospital," Enock Dongo, president of the Zimbabwe Nurses Association, told AFP. The union, which represents around 15,000 state nurses, last week called on members to strike over low pay at a time of galloping inflation.
He said an average nurse's salary had eroded from US$800 in 2008 to the equivalent of US$35 currently."We have become a danger to the patients we are supposed to look after."The country has recorded 716 COVID-19 cases including eight deaths so far, compared to 132 cases and four deaths at the end of May.
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