WATCH | Zimbabwe health workers strike after rejecting 100% pay rise

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Zimbabwe's main nurses' union urged the government to negotiate and warned that lives would be lost if the dispute was not resolved quickly.

The government and health workers are at an impasse after inflation jumped to 131.7% in May, a grim echo of the hyperinflation that wiped out people's savings a decade ago.At Sally Mugabe Hospital in Harare, patients seeking treatment sat in the courtyard while doctors, nurses, radiographers and pharmacists left their workplaces to protest.

He said health professionals across the country had decided to strike until they were paid $540 a month, the pay they used to receive in 2018 before the local currency slumped.

 

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