The medical personnel has taken this drastic industrial action  over job security and payment of bonuses and allowances.

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Emergency services in Zimbabwe’s public hospitals have  ground  to a halt after nurses joined doctors on strike.

Hospitals have been turning away the sick and patients have been discharged early.

Nurses  stayed away from the main hospitals in Harare and nearby Chitungwiza in what has become an  indefinite protest.

Zimbabwe authorities were forced to deploy army doctors last week.

There is a concern they’ll not be able to cope without nurses.

Zimbabwe’s medical professionals are some of the worst paid in the region and their salaries are often paid late.

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