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Zimbabwe's nurses can't afford ride to work

Last Updated: 2007-05-08 13:11:49 -0400 (Reuters Health)

HARARE - Nurses at Zimbabwe's major government hospitals are not reporting for work because they cannot afford transport costs due to low wages, the country's health minister said.

David Parirenyatwa told the official Herald newspaper that many nurses at state-run hospitals were suffering, and their forced absence had dealt another blow to a public health system struggling under a severe economic crisis. Transport costs are rising in line with the country's galloping inflation, which at 2,200 percent is the highest in the world.

Parirenyatwa said student nurses and nursing supervisors were staffing wards and attending to patients, but could not cope with the large numbers of people who need attention.

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