Zimbabwe: Doctors Finally End Strike

Doctors from government hospitals returned to work on Wednesday after a crippling two week long strike, but without their wage demands being met. Brighton Chizhande, President of the Hospital Doctors Association, said the union decided to call off the strike on humanitarian grounds and after receiving reassurances from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai that the government understood their plight and would listen to their demands.

The doctors claimed that the fear of a looming health crisis played a large part in their returning to work, following the reports of new cholera cases and an outbreak of swine flu.

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