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HARARE - Zimbabwe government hospitals were turning away patients on Wednesday as doctors defied calls to return to work until their demands for higher salaries and improved working conditions were met.
At Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, the country's largest health centre, patients with non-life-threatening illnesses were turned away because there were no doctors to attend to them. "They refused to admit me ... they are saying my condition is not serious, so what am I supposed to do if I go back home," Emilia Kabayadondo, a 64-year-old grandmother of six with a swollen leg and high blood pressure, said. Kabayadondo said she had been at the hospital at 0400 GMT. She was still waiting for treatment more than seven hours later.
The majority of Zimbabweans use state hospitals because they are cheaper than private facilities and allow patients to settle their bills months after being discharged.
Public health workers have staged a series of strikes and walkouts in recent years to press for higher salaries that they say have failed to keep pace with living costs, amid an economic crisis widely blamed on President Robert Mugabe's 26-year rule.
Unhappy over a basic salary of $563 and new rules compelling them to serve an extra year-long internship at poorly-equipped rural hospitals, some 270 state doctors have refused to work since last Thursday in the country's four main hospitals, Zimbabwe's Hospital Doctors Association said.
"Why can't they give them the money they want so that they can go back to work? Where do they think I can get the money to see a (private doctor)?" Kabayadondo, visibly in pain and unable to walk, said in the local Shona language.
A few metres away, four people hovered over a woman who lay on the pavement writhing with abdominal cramps. She was not admitted to the hospital although her family hoped she would at least see a doctor.
Mugabe's government has singled out health workers among state employees prevented from boycotting work because they offer essential services.
But Kuda Nyamutukwa, president of Zimbabwe's Hospital Doctors Association, vowed on Wednesday that doctors would press on with their boycott until a committee set up to mediate managed to broker a solution.
Zimbabwe has had a heavy exodus of doctors and nurses in recent years, with most moving to neighbouring countries in search of better working conditions after completing training.
