Zimbabwe's largest nurses union on Monday called on members to boycott work citing low pay which it said could no longer meet basic needs at a time of galloping inflation.
The strike comes as the country is experiencing an upsurge in coronavirus cases with 567 infections, including six deaths, recorded so far compared to 132 cases a month ago.
"The $3,000 average salary we earn is not sufficient to cover basic needs without even adding the costs required to attend work," it said. The union said a third of the average nurse's salary could only buy a two-litre bottle of cooking oil, a two-kilogramme packet of sugar, two litres of fruit juice, a two-kilogramme packet of rice and two loaves of bread.
On June 8, the union urged its members to stop going to work to press for higher pay but some nurses did not heed the call.
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