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Mnangagwa's govt says 'UN experts jumped the gun'
Government has dismissed a joint statement by five United Nations (UN) human rights experts, which concluded that three MDC-Alliance youth leaders were abducted as "premature and unreasonable" since i...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Healthcare professionals discover their voice
There is a seismic shift in Zimbabwe's political discourse. A critical segment of its population is beginning to find its voice - healthcare staff.Doctors, nurses and psychotherapists have lar...Published: 23 May 2020 at 10:03hrs | 1718 | by Sandra Kudenga
MDC 'self abductors' must help investigators
Although many of the reported so-called abductions have been shown to be fake in the past, each such report needs to be carefully and openly investigated to find answers to at least three questions: W...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
Revision of Covid-19 cases worrisome
HEALTH experts yesterday warned that the government's continued revision of confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in the country risks creating doubt and confusion on the testing system and the actua...Published: 03 May 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1680 | by Staff reporter
Health workers receive Covid-19 risk allowances
HEALTH workers reporting for duty have started receiving the Covid-19 risk allowance from Government amounting to $1 500. The allowance is based on the risk factor as determined by the authori...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown loses momentum
THERE are growing concerns that the ongoing 21-day national lockdown that was imposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to combat the spread of coronavirus is running out of steam.This comes as ...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 13:10hrs | 1317 | by Staff reporter
Travelling Zimbabweans in Corona horror
As the country struggles to deal with the deadly coronavirus at home, the government has now also been forced to rescue 107 Zimbabweans who are being detained by Tanzanian authorities in Dar es S...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 08:21hrs | 4537 | by Staff reporter
Wilkins hospital shuts down
ZIMBABWE's largest referral centre for COVID-19 cases, Wilkins Hospital in Harare, was shut down yesterday to "allow for further renovations", but medical staff at the health institution said the clos...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:46hrs | 3371 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors issue corona threat
DOCTORS have warned that they will not attend to coronavirus patients unless authorities supply them with protective clothing and the necessary equipment, the Daily News reports.This comes as ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 16:57hrs | 2467 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors issue strike threat
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has proposed that hospitals scale down to emergency mode and the cessation of all routine outpatient departments operations, as they decried the lack o...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:54hrs | 1909 | by Staff reporter
UZ medical students' fate hangs in balance
THE fate of final year medical students at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) who failed to write their examinations last year at the height of the doctors' strike is still in limbo.The students,...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:53hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Hospitals situation improves in Zimbabwe
THE situation at the country's hospitals has improved after doctors ended their strike with all junior doctors reporting for work at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospital, a doctors asso...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:47hrs | 537 | by Staff Reporter
Junior doctors announce end to strike
Striking junior doctors will end a four-month strike after accepting an offer from a telecoms billionaire to pay them a monthly allowance of about $300 for six months, their union said on Thursday....Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:10hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors resume normal duty
Senior doctors who have been providing limited services and attending to emergency cases only since December have returned to work fulltime and upscaled their services to include numerous urgent other...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:33hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Doctors leave Zimbabwe in droves amid govt hostility
FRUSTRATED Zimbabwean medical doctors are leaving the country in droves as government fails to break an impasse with the health professionals following a four-month strike action late last year over p...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1464 | by NewZimbabwe.com
Zimbabwe doctors give up, trickle back to work
A MAN lies on a stretcher, visibly in pain but at ease while three other people sit on wheelchairs, with over a dozen more sitting on benches — chatting and waiting.If one had been here just...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:26hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
'Abducted' Doctor resigns
Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) president Peter Magombeyi has resigned from his position as leader of junior medical practitioners, but vowed to continue the struggle to better condition...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 06:45hrs | 3956 | by Staff reporter
'Splinter group a plot to silence doctors'
A SPLINTER association of hospital doctors will be launched tomorrow amid allegations from existing groups that this is part of political "machinations" aimed at silencing genuine concerns being raise...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:01hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Doctors finally return to work
The majority of junior doctors had by this afternoon signed resumption of duty forms while consultant doctors also resolving to go back to work following a meeting they had with Government representat...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 18:26hrs | 2964 | by Staff Reporter
Army forms doctors association?
Former Zimbabwe Hospitals Doctors Association Secretary General Dr Bhebhe has alleged that a fake doctors association has been formed to negotiate a deal with the government over the more than 90 days...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 11:21hrs | 6820 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Junior doctors heading for split
A number of junior doctors are planning to break away from the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) which they say has been "captured" by foreign organisations. Indications are that th...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:27hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Doctors to stage a protest in Harare today
Doctors will stage a peaceful protest on Wednesday in Harare where they intend to hand over a petition to the Speaker of parliament Jacob Mudenda in a bid to lobby the legislature to address their pli...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 04:53hrs | 3790 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Only 46 out of 448 doctors return back to work
Only 46 doctors have returned to work after the President Emmerson Mnagwagwa issued a 48-hour moratorium to them last Thursday.Government had fired 448 doctors. The Minister of Informa...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 15:25hrs | 2132 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Strive Masiyiwa working in cahoots with govt, says Doctors
STRIKING public hospital doctors have claimed that they spurned Strive Masiyiwa's Higher Life Foundation (HLF)'s salary offer after realising that the Econet Wireless founder was working in cahoots wi...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1590 | by Staff reporter
Doctors report for duty
SOME doctors reported for duty at Mpilo Central Hospital yesterday following the presidential moratorium which allows them to return to work without reapplying after they were sacked recently for enga...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
Fired doctors want moratorium extended
FIRED doctors, who ignored the initial 48-hour moratorium extended to them last Thursday to return to work without reapplying, have now asked for an extension in a letter to the President. Alt...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:05hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Carnage in Zimbabwe hospitals continues
TOUTS are usually known for their confidence, foul language and naughtiness, but recently, they sobered up when one of their own died right on the streets with his hospital record card in hand, after ...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:48hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Junior doctors reject Mnangagwa's 48hr offer
SACKED junior doctors Friday scoffed at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 48 hour ultimatum for them to return to work without question.While appreciating the work done by Roman Catholic Bishops,...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:46hrs | 639 | by newzimbabwe
Patients call for doctors to return
Patients seeking treatment from public health institutions countrywide have pleaded with junior doctors to end their impasse with the Government over salaries and find it in their hearts to assist the...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:43hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Fired doctors were offside, says HSB
Doctors being dismissed from public health service violated multiple labour provisions, leaving the Government with no option but to institute disciplinary action, the Health Services Board (HSB) has ...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:34hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Doctors show Mnangagwa the middle finger
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association and the Senior Hospital Doctors Association have rejected the 48 hours moratorium to return to work. The moratorium was announced by President Emmerso...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 07:34hrs | 10209 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors dig in over readmission
Fired government doctors have said they will not reapply for their jobs and have instead asked Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to first address their concerns as well as the chaos that is prevaili...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Doctors leave Zimbabwe enmasse
Zimbabwean doctors who have been on industrial action for more than 80 days have begun leaving the country to look for greener pastures after the government has failed to fix respond to their needs. ...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 20:48hrs | 12594 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government to train community midwives as health scare hits the country
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to train community midwives to assist pregnant women in child bearing amidst health crisis that has hit the country due to the indus...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 09:55hrs | 894 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt, doctors impasse remains unresolved
DIALOGUE between the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) and the Health ministry has not yielded positive results, with the employer still to make an offer to the striking medical, practitio...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:48hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
'Soft genocide underway in Zimbabwe'
A ZIMBABWEAN living in the diaspora has castigated government's move to fire nearly 300 medical doctors from their jobs.Netsai Makarichi, a Zimbabwean based in the United Kingdom, said the mov...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1787 | by Staff reporter
University of Zimbabwe under fire over junior doctors
The government of Zimbabwe has forced the junior doctors to sit for exams after they signified that they want them to be postponed because they did not learn enough to sit for them. The Zimbab...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 08:37hrs | 4657 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fired doctors slam Mnangagwa govt for negative energy
FIRED Zimbabwean doctors have slammed government for apparent display of negative energy into processes leading to their dismissal while failing to redirect the same towards fixing the country's ailin...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:20hrs | 424 | by newzimbabwe
Chaos as govt fires over 200 doctors
GOVERNMENT yesterday fired 211 doctors at public hospitals for going o strike to demand better pay, with another 500 at risk.Doctors have been on strike since September 3 demanding salaries th...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:09hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenges graduates to modernise Zimbabwe industry
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday challenged universities and colleges to ensure their graduates are equipped to provide solutions, services and products to propel Zimbabwe's modernisation and industriali...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:03hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
A third of Zimbabwe doctors face the axe
A third of doctors who work in public health institutions, a total of 516 out of the 1 601 on the State payroll, face dismissal from public service this month as Government continues to hold disciplin...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:03hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe runs out of contraceptives
Public hospital doctors have lashed out at the Health Services Board (HSB) for firing 77 doctors since Tuesday.Addressing Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) members and the media at...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:53hrs | 1432 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Solidarity protest for fired doctors set for Wednesday
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association will be holding a solidarity meeting for the fired 77 doctors on Wednesday at Parirenyatwa Hospital.The meetings is held on the backdrop of the firing...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 20:59hrs | 9194 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dialogue needed to break doctors, govt impasse
Doctors and their employer have been urged to engage in an honest dialogue aimed at ending the current impasse which has halted operations in public hospitals and created chaos in the private sector w...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 12:19hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, doctors head for another clash
DOCTORS have come out guns blazing after President Emmerson Mnangagwa accused them of being sponsored by foreign hands to destabilise his government through strikes.The striking doctors also f...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 07:07hrs | 4305 | by Staff reporter
'Government to blacklist striking doctors' says Minister
Deputy Government Dr Energy Mutodi has fired warning shots at doctors warning them that if they continue to engage in industrial action they will be fired and blacklisted. Said Mutodi on Thurs...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 15:17hrs | 2119 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt splurges US$800K on another PR company
THE Zimbabwean government has splurged US$800 000 on London-based lobby and public relations (PR) firm BTP Advisers in a desperate bid to spruce up its battered international image and bolster a diplo...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:34hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Doctors send a strong message to government
Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association has written to their employer the Health Services Board informing them that they are not able to attend the disciplinary hearing because they are incapacitated....Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 07:09hrs | 10652 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe doctors launch crowd funding initiative to replace salaries
STRIKING doctors have set up a crowd funding initiative appealing for donations from the public after government denied them their October salaries.The health workers, who are pressing on with...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | 3802 | by newzimbabwe
'Doctors don't feed on court orders'
Striking doctors at public hospitals are likely to face a contempt of court charge for defying a Labour Court order issued last Friday compelling them to report for duty within 48 hours of the ruling ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1356 | by Staff reporter
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