ZIMBABWE’S NURSES COPE WITH EQUIPMENT AND FINDING SHORTAGES, WHILE MANY ABANDON THE COUNTRY
September 1st, 2008
BY CLEMENCE MANYUKWE
SHYLETTE Chifamba, 38, works for 12 hours each day at Harare's Baines Avenues Clinic, one of the country's elite private hospitals. Mrs Chifamba has worked for 13 years as an operating theatre nurse, five of which were at the government-run Harare Central Hospital, where she was also trained. She holds a General Nursing Diploma and an operating nursing diploma. Speaking to the Nursing Standard, she said she works long hours to raise more funds to enable her to sustain her family in a country with the world's highest inflation of 11.7 ...
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