Some health workers who left for the UK for greener pastures are stranded in Ireland because the Zimbabwean government has stopped issuing clearance letters allowing them to work abroad. | CdeLENIN
This as Zimbabwe's vice president and health minister, Constantino Chiwenga, said there were plans to criminalise the hiring of Zimbabwean nurses."If one deliberately recruits and makes the country suffer, that's a crime against humanity," Chiwenga added when addressing a gathering in Harare on Wednesday.
"When I got here, I wrote an exam and passed. So, after the exam, the Zimbabwe Nurses Council must issue the verification letter that will be used to register and get a critical skills visa," Ncube said.Zimbabwe had emerged as the biggest African contributor to the UK health sector, according to figures from the British Home Office.
The situation was made worse by the fact there were 2.6 nurses for a thousand people, according to the World Bank.From calling doctors"skilled labourers", to firing more than 15 000 nurses and later enacting a law banning health workers from undertaking industrial action, Chiwenga is an unpopular man in the health sector.
Retired nurses were called back but still, they did not cover the void left by those who had left for greener pastures.The government has been silently training soldiers and the police as health workers. This will guarantee a smooth flow because soldiers and the police have no provision for industrial action.
The Abuja Declaration, which Zimbabwe is a signatory to, stipulates 15% of a country's annual budget should go towards health.
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