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  • Zimbabwe doctors issue strike notice, demand pay in U.S. dollars

    Source: https://africa.cgtn.com/2020/07/16/z...n-u-s-dollars/


    Zimbabwe doctors issue strike notice, demand pay in U.S. dollars
    By Jerry Omondi -
    3 hours ago

    A health worker carries disinfectant equipment outside a hospital during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe, July 6, 2020. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

    Doctors in Zimbabwe’s state hospitals have issued a two-week strike notice demanding to have their salaries paid in U.S. dollars and for supplies of personal protective equipment against COVID-19.

    “Our salaries as paid in the Zimbabwe dollar cannot sustain us anymore,” the Zimbabwe Senior Hospital Doctors Association said in a letter to the Ministry of Health, seen by Bloomberg.

    “The Zimbabwe dollar is so volatile and subject to inflationary pressures that make it unpredictable.”

    The doctors’ strike notice comes barely a week after bankers also issued demands to have part of their salaries paid in U.S. dollars in a bid to cushion them from soaring inflation and a depreciating currency.

    Zimbabwe’s economy has been struggling for years, hit by massive inflation as well as food and fuel shortages...
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