Hospital crisis as Zimbabwe doctors go back on strike

By Violet Gonda
15 May 2007

Junior doctors at four of the country’s main referral state hospitals have gone back on strike, plunging the health sector into chaos. Doctors at Parirenyatwa, Harare Central, Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals started their indefinite strike on Tuesday.

The junior doctors, who recently returned to work after a three-month industrial boycott that ended in March, are calling for better salaries in line with inflation. Inflation is currently pegged at more than 2200% the highest in the world.