Patients dying due to drug, equipment shortages in Zimbabwe

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Nurses had to wash and re-use bandages due to a lack of basic supplies and medicine in Zimbabwe's biggest state hospital.

"I am just seeing patients, make a diagnosis and send them away to die," said gynaecological oncologist Bothwell Guzha, adding that the hospital had no cancer drugs left.

Plans to float a new transitional local currency introduced last month, the RTGS dollar, have been delayed.

 

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Zimbabwe doctors say patients dying due to drug, equipment shortagesDoctors said on Wednesday that patients in Zimbabwe's biggest state hospital were dying due to a lack of medicines and basic supplies, brought on by a cash crunch that has crippled the economy. In a rare protest by senior medical staff, dozens of doctors picketed outside Parirenyatwa Hospital. They said they were only able to treat emergency cases and urged the government to provide the equipment they needed to do their jobs. OMW 😮😮 Absolutely tragic! And not a white colonist in sight to blame! ZanuPF managed to take a magnificent country and “transformed” it into a dust bowl of despair and demoralization. This is the anc/eff vision of freedom for SA. 😢😢😢😢😢
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