SENIOR medical practitioners in Zimbabwe today held a meeting at Parirenyatwa Hospital where they resolved to go on strike over a number of grievances.

The doctors say they will only be working on emergency cases.

At the same meeting, consultants in surgery and anaesthetics resolved to preserve sundries for emergencies and to demonstrate tomorrow citing working conditions and lack of surgical sundries.

Part of their statement read:

“As consultants, our hearts bleed because of what is prevailing and feels that if we continue pretending we can offer full services we would be complicit in the deaths of our patients.”

“We have decided to rationalize use of the limited and very finite resources that are currently available.

We are now forced with immediate effect to further scale down the services which we are offering, to deal with dire emergencies only until the situation normalizes.”

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