Health workers union Zimbabwe Health Apex Council said while it knows the strike could mean human cost, they cannot report for work because remuneration of healthcare workers is presently so poor that most health care workers can no longer afford the service they provide nor are they able to look after and fend for their families.
On Friday, government offered its employees a 100% salary increment, which meant the lowest earning government worker would take home an equivalent of R1 600. They flatly rejected the offer. A nurse serves a meal to a patient lying on a bed in a medical ward at a local hospital in Harare on 26 April 2022.His iron fist approach, according to ZHAC, was hostile to the point that there has never been a meeting between him and health sector representatives.
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Zimbabwe govt workers reject pay offer, public health strike loomsZimbabwe government workers on Friday rejected a below-inflation 100% wage hike offer, demanding payment in United States dollars, as a state healthworker union said it would begin a job boycott on Monday. Media needs to stop making Zimbabwe's problems ours. Don't really care about this. Our own healthcare crisis is more pressing & immediate, made so by many of their brothers & sisters who are here.
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