Private hospitals in Zimbabwe are charging massive amounts of money - in foreign currency - for Covid-19 treatment
“Kindly be advised that all Covid patients are required to pay USD deposits, $60 for casualty, $3,000 for General Ward and $5,000 for ICU hospitalisation,” Obedience Ncube, credit controller for the Catholic run Mata Dei Hospital in Bulawayo, said in a statement.
A government worker earns the equivalent of US$30 , which is about half the fee for a basic Covid-19 test at a private hospital.“The salaries we are currently earning are meagre. They amount to slave wages ... to those who have been subsidising our employer by going to work, mostly because you have an alternative source of income, we call upon you to reconsider this and withdraw your labour as well,” the Zimbabwe Nurses' Association said.
The government this month began hiring newly graduated nurses but some of them don’t want to report to work. “I was assigned to a Covid-19 centre. I won’t go because my contract stipulates that I have three months to report for duty. This is like being deployed to the war front after training and above all there’s no money,” said a male nurse.
In Harare, The Avenues Clinic said it has put in place “elective admissions” whereby “emergency cases should have at least an RTD done”.To date, Zimbabwe has recorded 605 confirmed cases, 166 recoveries and seven deaths out of 68,400 tests.
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