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

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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