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Zimbabwe's Hospitals Turn Away Patients As Doctors Strike Continues

Columbus Mavhunga

   HARARE - Government hospitals in Zimbabwe have started turning away
   patients as a strike by doctors and nurses drags on. Negotiations have
   been held up by the disappearance of the strike leader, Peter Gabriel
   Magombeyi, whom fellow health workers believe was arrested or abducted
   by security forces.

   For much of Thursday, the entrance to Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare,
   Zimbabwe's biggest hospital, was turned into a place to protest and to
   address journalists. No patients were being treated at the facility.

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