Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president Lynette Karenyi-Kore has described the working conditions for health workers in the country as pathetic.

Hon Karenyi-Kore challenged the Zanu PF administration to address health workers’ grievances as a matter of urgency.

Read full statement below:

As we start the International Women’s month, I visited Victoria Chitepo hospital in Manicaland Province in solidarity with women assisting with medical care to the province, and women receiving the same, particularly pregnant mothers.

I met with very hard-working nurses and doctors.

I was, however, disturbed by the working conditions prevailing at the hospital: inadequate and insecure PPE, outdated and malfunctional medical apparatus and broken beds.

Not forgetting the meagre salaries being paid to these nurses who risk their lives in this deadly pandemic. These nurses deserve better, patients deserve better, all Zimbabweans deserve better.

Lynette Karenyi-Kore
Vice President
MDC-Alliance
5 March 2021