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Zimbabwe doctors' advice: Don't get sick |
2008-09-01 |
The advice of doctors to Zimbabweans is, don't get sick. If you do, don't count on hospitals _ they're short of drugs and functioning equipment. As the economy collapses, the laboratory at a main 1,000-bed hospital has virtually shut down. X-ray materials, injectable antibiotics and anticonvulsants have run out. Emergency resuscitation equipment is out of action. Patients needing casts for broken bones need to bring their own plaster. In a country with one of the world's worst AIDS epidemics, medical staff lack protective gloves. |
Posted by:Fred |
#3 Id agree to sending them a few tons of those Hospital style rubber gloves, think dual-purpose, cut off the fingers for rubbers. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-09-01 12:24 |
#2 Medical professionals have been leaving SA in large numbers for a decade or more. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-01 08:47 |
#1 Interesting that South Africa could survive and prosper to some extent under the same sort of sanctions but Zimbobway is wilting. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-09-01 08:42 |