By Farai D Hove| The Zimbabwean government has fired all striking nurses.

The announcement was made Tuesday evening that all striking nurses are with immediate effect no longer employed. The Ministry Of Health in their statement read out on the state media said, the nurses were fired after rejecting a $17,1 million offer.

Commenting on the development, MDC standing committee member Chalton Hwende told President Emmerson Mnangagwa, “Zimbabwe is now open for lunacy.”

Aspirant for Harare East MP seat, Linda Masarira lambasted Mnangagwa saying, “Firing striking nurses is not the solution to the health crisis in Zimbabwe. Shame on you @edmnangagwa @MoHCCZim Solve the crisis in the health sector and attend to the nurse’s grievances Labour injustice is a result of coup capitalists running the country,” she wrote on her Twitter portal.

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