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In Zimbabwe, Coronavirus Sick Told to Buy Their Own Ventilators


In Zimbabwe, Coronavirus Sick Told to Buy Their Own Ventilators
Bloomberg
1/24/2021
Ray Ndlovu
© Photographer: Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images Europe
HARARE, ZIMBABWE - JANUARY 22: A Rapid Diagnosis Test is conducted at Lancet Clinical Laboratories, a Covid-19 testing facility at St Annes Hospital on January 22, 2021 in Harare, Zimbabwe. The country has seen a surge in covid-19 cases and deaths since December. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images)
(Bloomberg) Zimbabwe shows what happens when the coronavirus collides with one of the world’s most run-down health systems.
Nurses at a major public hospital in the capital are on strike after colleagues died because of a lack of personal protective equipment, medical facilities have run out of oxygen and undertakers can’t keep up. ....

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Covid-19 Chaos In Zimbabwe - NewZimbabwe.com


Sierra Leone Times
In Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, the main funeral parlours and cemeteries are overrun and the city’s biggest hospital is in a shambles, while the Beitbridge border with South Africa is a mess.
Zimbabweans seeking to enter South Africa through that border have experienced lengthy delays.
The situation has been exacerbated by the production of fake Covid-19-negative test certificates. Earlier, delays were on the South African side of the border as Zimbabweans and regional truck drivers overwhelmed border officials.
“I’ve just crossed the border from Zimbabwe. On the Zimbabwean side, it took me four days and three nights to get through. The corruption [on that side] is messy. On the South African side, it took me less than a day to get through,” said Tarisai Kajai, a Zimbabwean who struggled to cross the border. ....

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Nurses down tools


Nurses down tools
BY MOSES MATENGA/ PHYLIS MBANJE/ PRAISEMORE SITHOLE/GARIKAI TUNHIRA
NURSES at major public hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo downed tools yesterday for fear of contracting the deadly COVID-19 virus after being forced to work without personal protective equipment (PPE).
The work stoppage, which is likely to plunge the health delivery system into turmoil given the recent countrywide surge in COVID-19 cases, came after a matron at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital in Harare reportedly succumbed to the killer disease on Wednesday.
Sally Mugabe Hospital maternity nurses vowed yesterday that they would not risk working without PPE, amid claims that seven staff members and 15 patients had also tested positive for COVID-19. ....

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