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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Chris Muronzi

Zimbabwe healthcare workers strike over wages, inflation crisis

People walk past Zimbabwean medical workers as they sit outside Sally Mugabe Central Hospital during a strike by state doctors and nurses to press for higher pay, in Harare, Zimbabwe, June 20, 2022 [Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters]

Harare, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwean healthcare workers have gone on strike to compel the government to pay salaries in US dollars as spiralling inflation has eroded the purchasing power of their take-home pay.

The country’s nurses, doctors, pharmacists, radiologists and other medical professionals did not turn up for work on Monday in an action that strike organisers described as a huge “success”.

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