By Own Correspondent| Below are the estimated statistics from some hospitals following the ongoing doctors strike which began in September. ZimEye has queried why the figures are rounded off. The only plausible explanation given was that the hospitals do not have a systematic method of capturing the number of the deaths categorised under the (primary database key) factor of an incident such as a doctors strike. These numbers were collated from estimates using mortuary space calculations, hence their being presented in rounded off format. Readers are notified that by Sunday we should have more reliable numbers.

REPORTED DEATHS IN METROPOLITAN HOSPITALS.
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These deaths are only of those who died in hospital. Thousands have been discharged. Many are dying at home the statistics for those dying at home will never be known.