Nigerian health workers demanding the payment of a hazard allowance for treating coronavirus patients have gone on strike only a week after doctors in Africa's most...Weekly Roundup
Nigerian resident doctors began their second strike of the year over pay and working conditions amid the spread of the new coronavirus, the doctors' union is quoted in a...South Africa
Health workers have threatened to go on a national strike in September, when the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to peak in parts of the country, over a lack of protective...Weekly Roundup
Doctors treating COVID-19 patients in Sierra Leone has gone on strike over unpaid bonuses, leaving patients in some of the main treatment centres without care, Polity...Africa
Zimbabwe has raised salaries for all government workers by 50%, hours after nurses stopped work at a major government hospital in the capital Harare, demanding to be...Africa
Burundi has ordered the expulsion of the World Health Organisation expert team co-ordinating the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic, while the president of...Weekly Roundup
Hospersa, a union of more than 60,000 health workers in the public and private health sector, said in a statement that it has raised concerns over the increasing mood...Weekly Roundup
Zimbabwe's doctors have agreed to return to work after accepting a funding offer from a billionaire, reports BBC News. The prolonged strike over pay and poor conditions...Africa
Some Zimbabwe junior doctors have ended their more than 100 days of industrial action, after the intervention of Catholic bishops but because many senior doctors remain...
December 4th, 2019
Zimbabwe's worsening health crisis is forcing desperate women to seek out traditional birth attendants, who often deliver babies using their bare hands with no...
