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Private hospital doctors strike
PATIENTS admitted to Premier Service Claybank Hospital in Gweru have gone for two days without getting medical care as more than 200 nurses, doctors, and health support staff at the upmarket health ca...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Doctors and nurses to engage in full strike
The Health Apex Council which is the highest negotiation body for medical practitioners in Zimbabwe on Friday resolved to engage in a full scale industrial action if their demands are not met by the 2...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 20:09hrs | 4790 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe runs out of betadine and painkillers
Zimbabwe's top hospital Parirenyatwa has run out of basic necessities like betadine and painkillers it has been revealed. The issue came out during a meeting between Minister of Health Obadiah...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 08:18hrs | 4369 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors' strike a national disaster
The strike of specialist doctors' at Parirenyatwa Hospital is an indictment on the failed military government.It is a high level manifestation of a Nation in crisis. Mnangagwa and his cabal mu...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 21:08hrs | 1632 | by Jacob Mafume
Senior doctors strike at Parirenyatwa over sundries, drugs shortages
Specialist consulting doctors at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals embarked on a strike on Tuesday to demand improvements in the supply of consumables and equipment.The consultants said they wou...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 23:09hrs | 2841 | by zimlive
Another Grace Mugabe in the making!
So you are telling me that the whole acting president of the Republic of Zimbabwe failed to bring to an end the strike by the skilled labourers - I mean the junior doctors? But it took Auxilia a few h...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:08hrs | 23478 | by Mapombi Adonha
From Great Zimbabwe to Zimbabwe Ruins with Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
With great good hope Zimbabweans of all polical affiliation, race, colour and creed poured-out onto the streets, led by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, to tell Mugabe of The Enough of the journey from Th...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:33hrs | 1995 | by Reginald Thabani Gola.
Chamisa' MDC blasts Mnangagwa's five-nation foreign junket
THE opposition bas condemned President Emmerson Mnangagwa's five-nation foreign trip which will see him travelling to the likes of Azerbaijan, Belarus and Kazakhstan.According to presidential ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:24hrs | 2379 | by newzimbabwe
Auxilia Mnangagwa saga: Fadzayi Mahere digs in
Prominent human rights lawyer Fadzayi Mahere had questioned about who mandated the First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa to meet the doctors and solve their grievances.Mahere said the act is against co...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:53hrs | 8480 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Full list of doctors who have resumed duties
The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting has released the number of doctors who reported for duty in various hospitals on Monday. "Doctors continue to report for duty in all hosp...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:02hrs | 7055 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors dump work and resume strike
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association has announced that its members who had resumed duty on Monday will be withdrawing their services on Tuesday to join the rest of their counterparts who did not...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 16:17hrs | 5712 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Temba Mliswa speaks on Auxilia Mnangagwa
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has came out in defence of First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa who has come under fire for convening a meeting with the junior doctors who were on industrial st...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 12:27hrs | 8647 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Energy Mutodi defends the Mnangagwa - Chiwenga fiasco
Deputy Minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services has defended the widely condemned situation that saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Acting President Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Do...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 10:55hrs | 7846 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors report for work in 5 cities
The Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has announced that in the past two days all doctors have resumed their duties in the following areas:Marondera - All Doct...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 10:08hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Suspended doctors appeal for $250,000
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association have launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $250,000 for the suspended junior doctors who engaged in industrial action for the past 38 days....Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:35hrs | 979 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fresh twist to doctors strike saga
In a latest development, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association has dismissed media reports that doctors have called off the strike after meeting First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in Friday.Thi...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 15:18hrs | 5920 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: First lady speaks out after meeting doctors
The First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has explained what they agreed on with the doctors and how they manage to break the checkmate that was between the doctors and the government. Watch the video...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 12:56hrs | 6842 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Doctors return to work after meeting First Lady
The striking doctors have reportedly agreed to back to work after a closed door meeting with First lady Auxilia Mnangagwa on Friday. Reports says they agreed that some of their demands need time ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:57hrs | 12275 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa cuts leave to solve Chiwenga's mess
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to cut short his leave days and try to break the impasse in the negotiations between the government and the junior doctors who are on industrial action....Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 10:17hrs | 14418 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gvt responds to doctors' demand for foreign currency salaries
Government has told doctors who are on strive demanding payment of salaries in United States dollars that they should not expect any such development in the near future.Posting on micro-bloggi...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 20:11hrs | 8080 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors strike symptom of bigger malaise
THE ongoing strike by doctors in the country's hospitals is just but a symptom of the bigger illness plaguing Zimbabwe.The doctors are demanding payment in US dollars, stocking of medicines an...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:45hrs | 238 | by Editorial - newsdsay
Chiwenga speaks on striking doctors
Government under the stewardship of the feared (Rtd) General Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga has issued a statement following the suspension of more than 550 doctors and registrars accused of ...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:06hrs | 10332 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: 550 doctors suspended
The Health Services Board has suspended over 550 junior medical doctors and radiographers for defying Sunday's labour court order for them to go back to work within 12 hours.Last week Ca...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 14:57hrs | 3786 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube calls doctors' demands 'nonsensical'
Finance minister has rubbished the Doctors proposal for their salaries to be paid in USD saying government has no source of those USD dollars.Speaking after the signing ceremony wh...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 18:26hrs | 5400 | by Collen Ncube
Cabinet orders doctors to go back to work
The Zimbabwe cabinet has ordered striking junior doctors to go back to work as they did not follow the proper procedure in engaging in industrial action. In a statement read by the Minister of...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 10:00hrs | 2946 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pay the doctors and save lives
The government must quickly and effectively resolve the issue of Medical practitioners' welfare to avoid further crippling of the health delivery system and avoid loss of life.The ongoing medi...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 723 | by Dr. Henry Madzorera, MDC National Secretary for Health
Doctors on strike, 'hopeful ED has solutions' - vote rigging ED is now our No: 1 problem
"Zimbabwean doctors at public hospitals went on strike on Monday for the second time this year to demand better pay and conditions, a union official said, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government ...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 07:34hrs | 2113 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe doctors strike called off
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has implored its members who had joined the nationwide industrial action that started yesterday to go back to work while their grievances are being loo...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 months since Mugabe's ouster. Has Zimbabwe changed for the better?
24 November 2017 was an electrifying day for Zimbabweans. For the first time in 30 years, they would have a new president. Robert Mugabe, who for so long had dominated and controlled Zimbabwe's politi...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 17:03hrs | 3542 | by Mako Muzenda
Doctor strike ends thanks to ED 'swift action' - swift action my foot, where was he these 38 years
The doctors strike is over, hurrah! In their statement announcing the end of the strike, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) National Executive raised some interesting points and ...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 19:04hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Army doctors deployed at Mpilo Central Hospital
MPILO Central Hospital will today get an extra pair of hands from the Zimbabwe National Army to ease the burden caused by the national doctors strike which spills into day 27.In addition, 35 n...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Doctors strike - March 2018
The Doctors and the entire health system problem has always been pending and the new Mnangagwa government should have dealt with it as soon as they came into office. The solution's curtain rai...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 14:45hrs | | by Clement Moyo
Nurses threaten to join doctors strike
Nurses at Zimbabwe's public hospitals have threatened to join striking doctors to put pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cash-strapped government to increase their allowances and improve their...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors strike justified or not?
I have been reading and participating in various discussions concerning the ongoing strike by doctors in Zimbabwe. I would say I significant number of Zimbabweans at home and abroad are in support of ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Tafadzwa Masango
Doctors strike in pictures
Doctors on strike demonstrating against governments inattention to the countries health needshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L4dyzfyyIw...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Doctors strike illegal, says Government
GOVERNMENT and the Health Services Board have said the ongoing strike by doctors is illegal and urged them to return to work immediately.The doctors had before downing tools, petitioned Govern...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:29hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Doctors strike exposes the Mnangagwa 100 days lie
Auxilia Mnangagwa made headlines infinite running around all referral hospitals in the country soon after the unceremonious inauguration of her husband as President of the Republic.Many though...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 14:27hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Nurses join doctors strike
Several hospitals countrywide on Tuesday operated without nurses as they embarked on a strike over outstanding 2016 bonuses.According to reports, nurses in Rusape, Karoi, Mutare and Chinhoyi s...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 03:58hrs | 708 | by Staff Reporter
Army doctors deployed in hospitals as strike continues
Army doctors have been deployed to various public hospitals countrywide to offer medical care as doctors strike continues.Doctors have been on strike for past six days protesting over working ...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 14:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Doctor's strike - Kenya jails leaders
NAIROBI - A Kenyan court yesterday jailed seven union officials for a month over a doctors strike that has crippled public hospitals for 10 weeks. Judge Hellen Wasilwa at Kenya's labour court had ...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:30hrs | | by Agencies
Health crisis loom as doctors strike
Hundreds of doctors at public hospitals are planning a crippling strike this week in protest over government's failure to honour its pledge to appoint junior doctors and improve their cond...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Junior doctors strike ends
The impasse between the government and the junior medical doctors over contracts has been resolved.All doctors who had embarked on industrial action have been advised to go back to work....Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 17:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide over girlfriends ban
A man from Emakhandeni allegedly hanged himself at his best friends' home after his mother banned him from bringing girlfriends home.Paul Mutete, 22, was in the habit of bringing different wom...Published: 11 Nov 2014 at 09:27hrs | 5477 | by Loveness Bepete
Doctors strike disaster: Unattended patients die
BULAWAYO - FOUR patients at Mpilo Central Hospital died yesterday within two hours of each other as the three-week strike by junior doctors begins to take its toll although hospital authorities do...Published: 11 Nov 2014 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Patients left to die as doctors strike
THE JUNIOR doctors' strike in protest over poor salaries yesterday could have risked many people's lives at most of the country's public referral hospitals as patients spent the whole day unat...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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