A five-day strike by medical staff froze the country’s ailing hospitals, but although the government was forced to pay attention, it is refusing to pay in American currency
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/ 30 December 2007
Zimbabwe’s state-employed junior doctors and nurses are on strike for higher pay, putting further strain on the country’s crumbling public healthcare facilities. Doctors and nurses have staged a series of strikes in recent years as their salaries have been steadily eroded by the world’s highest inflation rate.