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| Subject: The Joy of Non-White Supremacy: Bare-handed surgeries as Zimbabwe's health system collapses Sat Jan 12, 2019 8:59 pm | |
| HARARE, Zimbabwe — A doctors' strike in Zimbabwe has crippled a health system that was already in intensive care from neglect. It mirrors the state of affairs in a country that was full of promise a year ago with the departure of longtime leader Robert Mugabe but now faces economic collapse. Doctors describe grim conditions: Bare-handed surgeries. Plastic bread bags used to collect patients' urine. Broken-down machines. Zimbabwe's health sector, once considered one of the best in Africa, is on its knees.
"It's so sad. The hospitals are empty, the patients are being turned away to die somewhere else," said Prince Butau, treasurer of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, which represents about 1,000 doctors who anchor government hospitals. A new president's promises of change have turned out to be empty. "Affordable quality health care guaranteed," read campaign billboards for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former Mugabe protege, ahead of the July 2018 election. Six months after he narrowly won the disputed vote, Zimbabwe's health sector has widespread shortages of basic medicines such as painkillers and contraceptives. Mnangagwa and others in the country's political and economic elite receive medical care mainly in neighboring South Africa, while Mugabe frequently visits Singapore for treatment.
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