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 Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday after meeting the Catholic Bishops Conference. The doctors said the offer does not take into cognisance the plights of the workers. Read the full letter below: On Sunday 24th ...

Government has fired 77  striking doctors after finding them guilty of absenteeism. The Health Services Board said the doctors have since been discharged from public service following disciplinary hearings which the doctors absconded from. In a statement this afternoon, HSB chairman Dr Paulinus Sikosana said the doctors were being charged in terms of section 4 of the Labour (National Employment ...

THE right to strike distinguishes employment hum slavery. This is one of the reasons there was instantaneous revulsion when one very powerful country mendaciously claimed that Zimbabwe is using child labour in its diamond mines. The people of Zimbabwe and their Government abhor any form of servitude. This Government was founded on building critical mass against the Native Labour Act, ...

OPERATIONS at Parirenyatwa and Harare Central hospitals yesterday ground to a halt after nurses joined the strike by doctors, with most wards at Zimbabwe’s two largest referral hospitals closed, increasing pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration. Public hospital doctors have been on strike for over a month citing poor working conditions and remuneration and yesterday, nurses joined the job action ...

Dozens of Zimbabwe junior doctors are gathered at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, and planning to march to the offices of their employer, the Health Services Board to present, among other issues, their inability to continue reporting for duty due to what they are calling “appalling and disgraceful” conditions of service. The doctors have complained about poor salaries of less than ...

MORE than $500 000 has been raised for the construction of Ezimnyama community clinic, 66 years after the project was mooted, but could not be completed due to successive generational bickering among the community members. The clinic’s groundbreaking ceremony was done in 1953, when the farming community decided to build a health facility in Ezimnyama small-scale farming area. However, efforts ...

Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, has been plunged into a crisis by an acute shortage of potable water after two out of three supply dams ran dry due to drought, while the city council failed to buy water purification chemicals owing to a shortage of foreign currency. The Zimbabwe Independent senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to the city mayor, ...

Health watchdogs have called for thorough investigations into the recent death of a woman during labour at Parirenyatwa Hospital amid allegations that she was left unattended for too long. Sharon Munyonho’s body was found in a grisly state with the baby stuck between her legs. “There is need for thorough investigations. It is sad and painful that she died while ...

Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, has reportedly started to fully recover from his health woes at a top notch Beijing military hospital and is bouncing back, Spotlight Zimbabwe, has been told. A senior aide in the VP’s office who was recently with him here in Pretoria, before his transfer, has for the first time revealed Chiwenga’s true state of ...

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said government will continue striving to make health services affordable and accessible as it resuscitates the health sector. Speaking during the handover of medical equipment and surgical sundries sourced from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Health ministry at NatPharm yesterday, Mnangagwa said the donation would relieve the recently commissioned equipment from overuse. “This donation ...