Private hospitals in Zimbabwe are charging massive amounts of money - in foreign currency - for Covid-19 treatment
With government hospitals ill-equipped, and with doctors and nurses on strike, the only hope available for those needing treatment is private care - something beyond the reach of many.
A government worker earns the equivalent of US$30 , which is about half the fee for a basic Covid-19 test at a private hospital.“The salaries we are currently earning are meagre. They amount to slave wages ... to those who have been subsidising our employer by going to work, mostly because you have an alternative source of income, we call upon you to reconsider this and withdraw your labour as well,” the Zimbabwe Nurses' Association said.
The government this month began hiring newly graduated nurses but some of them don’t want to report to work.
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