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Zimbabwe: Striking Doctors Snub Wage Talks As Govt Offers 100% Allowance Increase
New Zimbabwe, 19 October 2019
ZIMBABWE'S striking doctors Friday snubbed wage negotiations in which government pledged an immediate 100 percent increase to their allowances to health workers. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Labour Court to Rule on Doctors' Strike
The Herald, 8 October 2019
The Labour Court is this afternoon expected to make a determination on the legality of the 36-day mass job action by medical doctors who have repeatedly snubbed the employer's plea… Read more »
Striking Zimbabwe Doctors Defy Govt Order to Resume Work
Striking Zimbabwean doctors defied a government ultimatum to return to work, after rejecting a 60% pay rise offer they say is not enough to keep up with soaring prices of basic goods. The southern African nation's economy is grappling with its worst crisis in a decade, with triple-digit inflation, rolling power cuts and shortages of health medicine and fuel, reviving memories of 2008's hyper-inflation under late president Robert Mugabe.
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Zimbabwe: Anal Cancer Victim Tells Harrowing Tale As Doctors Strike Continues
New Zimbabwe, 7 October 2019
As soon as her husband got wind of the nature of her sickness, he left, leaving her to deal with the unfavourable and very difficult conditions associated with cancer, anal cancer… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Doctors' Strike - Medical School Lecturers Suspended
The Herald, 9 October 2019
The case in which Government was seeking determination on the legality of doctors' job action has been deferred to tomorrow to allow the applicant to provide documents of… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Junior Doctors Disregard Govt Threat, Continue On Strike
263Chat, 7 October 2019
Junior doctors from public hospitals, on Monday disregarded government threats against their ongoing industrial action and chose not to report for duty, charging that threats will… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Doctors Must Rethink Service to Profession, Country
The Herald, 7 October 2019
Yesterday, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZDHA) issued a statement in which it announced that it was pulling out of the Health Apex Council, ostensibly because the… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Mpilo Hospital Comes to a Standstill
New Zimbabwe, 9 October 2019
Disaster is looming at Bulawayo's Mpilo hospital where "incapacitated" nurses have failed to report for work over high public transport costs. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Govt Speaks on Abduction Reports
The Herald, 9 October 2019
Government has not received any letters from a British-based organisation, International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR), over alleged failure to investigate recent claims of… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Trouble Looms for President Over Abductions and Torture
New Zimbabwe, 7 October 2019
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's failure to investigate and bring to account, people linked to the abductions of two unionists, Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) leader… Read more »
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Labour groups representing the doctors have rejected the government's offer of a 60% salary increase as the increase would be paid in Zimbabwe's devalued currency and not the U.S. ... Read more »
