Terrence Mawawa| Reports indicate that the Health Services Board
(HSB) and a task force set up by the Zimbabwe Medical Association (Zima) to mediate between the State and medical personnel held a crisis
meeting on Sunday as the situation in government run hospitals continues to boil.

The crisis meeting was meant to break the impasse between the
government and striking junior doctors.

Sources in the Health Ministry have said that the government is in
the process of recruiting failed medical students to replace those who are on suspension.

“It smacks of insincerity because on
one hand, government has indicated it wants to talk, but on the other, it has gone ahead and recruited hordes of final year students, some of whom
have actually failed. The results are
yet to be known, but the government
already has a deployment list of the
interns, who are supposed to replace
the junior doctors whom the State
reportedly fired last week,” claimed the sources.