Zimbabwe | The scandal of the unwanted nurses « National « ZimEye

THE government announced recently that it does not have the capacity to hire and remunerate 2,000 state registered nurses who were issued with their diplomas in 2010 and 2011.

This assertion, which amounts to an acceptance by the government that it is abdicating its duties, is in bad taste especially in view of the fact that it is premised on the spurious excuse that the government has no resources to pay nurses.

The move paves way for nurses – trained with tax payer dollars – to seek greener pastures in neighbouring countries, putting at risk the lives of Zimbabweans who are left with ill-equipped and under-manned hospitals.

Previously, the government would withhold diplomas for nurses who completed their training so that they could be bonded to local health institutions for at least three years. This, of course, is necessary, not least because the government met the full cost of the nurses’ training.

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