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Government To Pay Medical Staff In Sector Recovery Strategy

October 2009 | Industry Trend Analysis

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In further developments aimed at assisting Zimbabwe's economic recovery, the coalition government has revealed that medical staff will be paid more substantial salaries appropriate to their positions. The healthcare sector is an urgent priority for the re-establishment of core industrial segments, and one of the factors that contributed to its breakdown was the mass exodus of doctors and nurses. Political violence and general unrest also disrupted the medical supply chain, causing medicine shortages in hospitals, power and water cuts - all made worse by overwhelming demand from patients with traumatic injuries and communicable diseases.