Nurses at Zimbabwe’s largest hospital Parirenyatwa are using bed sheets as personal protective equipment as the country’s economic situation worsens. The country is facing an acute shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) as it battles the covid-19 pandemic.
Zimbabwe nurses have resorted to industrial action before as they protest over the government’s funding of the health sector. The lack of PPE is likely to cause covid-19 infections to these frontline workers.
Prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono posted, “These are nurses at Zimbabwe’s BIGGEST hospital, Parirenyatwa, wearing BEDSHEETS as an alternative form of Personal Protective Equipment. This is in a country where a company close to the President has LOOTED BILLIONS of dollars, yet Mnangagwa can’t provide PPE. FAILED NATION!”
These are nurses at Zimbabwe’s BIGGEST hospital, Parirenyatwa, wearing BEDSHEETS as an alternative form of Personal Protective Equipment.
This is in a country where a company close to the President has LOOTED BILLIONS of dollars, yet Mnangagwa can’t provide PPE.
FAILED NATION! pic.twitter.com/FIdHV0POfg
— Hopewell Chin’ono (@daddyhope) May 14, 2020
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Zimbabwe currently has 38 covid-19 cases.