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Zimbabwe’s Hospitals Turn Away Patients As Doctors Strike Continues

Government hospitals in Zimbabwe have started turning away patients as a strike by doctors and nurses drags on. Negotiations have been held up by the disappearance of the strike leader, Peter Gabriel Magombeyi, whom fellow health workers believe was arrested or abducted by security forces.

For much of Thursday, the entrance to Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe’s biggest hospital, was turned into a place to protest and to address journalists. No patients were being treated at the facility.

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“With these petitions, we are trying to send a message to the responsible authorities to account for the whereabouts of our acting president, Dr. Peter Magombeyi, because as doctors we can’t go back to work. We feel threatened and our safety is not guaranteed. We believe that the government has a responsibility for the security of its citizens. So we want them to address all those concerns.”

While the standoff between the government and health workers continues, patients like Tembo go untreated, with no choice but to wait until the situation is resolved.

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