FACTSHEET: Doctors and nurses in Zimbabwe’s public hospitals

Some Zimbabwean health workers undergoing COVID-19 training

Zimbabwe’s public health sector has suffered almost annual strikes by doctors and nurses in the last decade over issues of salaries and conditions of service. Their grievances now include inadequate or old equipment in the hospitals, lack of treatment drugs and protective clothing for workers.

They also complain of overwork, citing shortages of nurses and doctors in some of the country’s major provincial and main hospitals.

On its part, the government says it is in “permanent dialogue” with the nurses and doctors on improving the health system and their conditions, but faces financial constraints due to national economic problems.

As Zimbabwe gears up for a fight against the Coronavirus disease, the doctors and nurses are demanding higher wages and protective clothing.

The following are the number of nurses and doctors in Zimbabwe’s public hospitals:


NURSESDOCTORS
Chitungwiza 53367
Mpilo819228
UBH676207
Ingutsheni 2416
Parirenyatwa Hospital 1,059229
Mashonaland  East 1,52344
Harare Central 1,224357
Manicaland 1,68760
Midlands 1,51855
Masvingo1,38750
Matabeleland North96222
Matabeleland South 1,34628
Mashonaland West1,41133
Mashonaland central 96728
Total15 3531414

MOHCC as at February 2020

Source – Health Services Board 

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