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Government accused of betraying health workers
03 Jan 2016 at 08:17hrs | Views
A health practitioner Doctor Brighton Chireka has penned an article accusing the government of Zimbabwe for betraying the health practitioners whom he said work under difficult conditions yet the governmen5t ignored to pay them in time.
In his article he said the medical professionals currently working in Zimbabwe are working under difficult conditions and their wages cannot sustain them and to make matters worse the Zimbabwean government has now failed to even pay these hardworking health professionals their December salary on time.
"This is unacceptable and there is no excuse for this to happen. We are critical of our health professionals when they down their tools but we treat them as if we can do without them. It is an open secret that health professionals are well sort after world over and each and every country is doing its best to retain its professionals but not our government," her wrote.
"We need to act sooner rather than later as we will lose these professionals. I am sadly one of them that left and I am offering my services to people of Kent in UK. I am still Zimbabwean and have my heart there but I have been away for the last 16 years meaning that I may be slowly becoming a lost generation. I do not want that to happen but the news coming from home is not pleasing to hear."
He said he was really disappointed at the way the way health professionals who have sacrificed their lives and careers to be in Zimbabwe are treated.
"They could have been in UK like me but chose to put up with the harsh conditions in our country. We cannot make the conditions more harsh by failing to pay our doctors on time. This is disaster to say the least and the leadership that is presiding over this chaos must ask themselves serious questions about their leadership," he said. "How can you invest millions of dollars into training medical professionals that you are not going to look after? Why become a training ground for other countries? Why are you failing these doctors that have stood by you through thick and thin?"
"A lot of people will ask why am l involving myself with Zimbabwe. I am Zimbabwean even if I may not be local I have a moral duty to be involved," he added.
In his article he said the medical professionals currently working in Zimbabwe are working under difficult conditions and their wages cannot sustain them and to make matters worse the Zimbabwean government has now failed to even pay these hardworking health professionals their December salary on time.
"This is unacceptable and there is no excuse for this to happen. We are critical of our health professionals when they down their tools but we treat them as if we can do without them. It is an open secret that health professionals are well sort after world over and each and every country is doing its best to retain its professionals but not our government," her wrote.
"We need to act sooner rather than later as we will lose these professionals. I am sadly one of them that left and I am offering my services to people of Kent in UK. I am still Zimbabwean and have my heart there but I have been away for the last 16 years meaning that I may be slowly becoming a lost generation. I do not want that to happen but the news coming from home is not pleasing to hear."
"They could have been in UK like me but chose to put up with the harsh conditions in our country. We cannot make the conditions more harsh by failing to pay our doctors on time. This is disaster to say the least and the leadership that is presiding over this chaos must ask themselves serious questions about their leadership," he said. "How can you invest millions of dollars into training medical professionals that you are not going to look after? Why become a training ground for other countries? Why are you failing these doctors that have stood by you through thick and thin?"
"A lot of people will ask why am l involving myself with Zimbabwe. I am Zimbabwean even if I may not be local I have a moral duty to be involved," he added.
Source - Byo24News
