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By A Correspondent| The year 2018 could as well be termed the year of summary dismissals (nurses and doctors). Today the 25th December 2018, Zim hospitals have opened without a single doctor inside their buildings. This came after senior doctors announced they are downing tools in solidarity with junior doctors who were suspended by the Emmerson Mnangagwa run HSB (Health Services Board).

Yesterday Senior doctors expressed anger and dismay with the manner in which junior doctors were summarily suspended recently by the Health Services Board (HSB) for engaging in what the Labour Court ruled on Saturday as an illegal job action.

All the junior doctors and radiographers who had been on strike, 550 in total, have been suspended.

Senior doctors who have been hitherto attending to critical patients since the strike began on December 1 have now thrown their weight behind the junior doctors.

In a letter written by the senior doctors and General Medical Officers (GMOs), they are withdrawing their services with immediate effect: