By A Correspondent| Higherlife Foundation, an NGO founded by Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa has offered to contribute towards doctors’ salaries in a bid to end the current impasse between government and doctors.

The organisation has offered to pay an extra monthly amount of ZWL$5,000 (US$310), a smartphone, transport and some medical equipment.

The organisation said it was not doing this in consultation with government.

Said Higherlife in a statement:

In order for our healthcare system to continue having this continuous inflow of doctors, it is important for junior and senior resident officers to complete their training within the designated time period.

The scholarship covers those who are currently undergoing a junior or senior resident programme… (and) will last for the duration of six months, with funding contingent upon fellows remaining enrolled in their programme in that period and satisfying all requirements.”