Access to nurses is poor, too — just 2.6 per 1 000 people as of 2017, reveals the World Bank. In a key 1 000-bed public hospital, managers told reporters that services were crippled when dozens of nurses and doctors left for the UK in 2021.
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Government and doctors talks hit deadlock

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SALARY negotiations between senior doctors and the government have deadlocked after the latter insisted on paying in local currency, the Daily News reports. This emerged during a meeting held on Wednesday between deputy Health minister John Mangwiro and the senior doctors, who have given the government a two-week strike notice, demanding that their salaries be…

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