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Health Care workers in Zimbabwe have condemned the government’s plan to criminalize their recruitment to work in other countries, as part of efforts to reduce a medical brain drain.

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Vice President, Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health Minister, this week, said the country will introduce a law to make it illegal for foreign nations to hire their Healthcare workers.

“If one deliberately recruits and make the country suffer because it lacks the required professionals, that’s a crime against humanity,” Chiwenga said. “If people die in hospitals because there are no nurses and doctors and somebody who has been so irresponsible of not training their nationals but wanting poor countries to train for them it’s a crime. That must be taken seriously.”

Zimbabwe’s Association of Doctors for Human Rights, says any attempt to prevent Healthcare workers from leaving the country for better jobs, would be illegal.

The head of the association, Dr. Norman Matara, told VOA Friday, the government’s plan to criminalize foreign recruitment of health care workers was shocking.

“In our constitution, the Zimbabwe constitution, it guarantees citizens have the right to move freely within the country or leave the country,” Matara said. “We don’t know why those comments were made by the honorable minister of health. The government continue to use scare tactics and command approach to solving health care problems.”

Matara, stressed that Zimbabwe’s Healthcare workers are choosing to leave.

“The government should note that health workers are not being pulled away from the country but pushed away from the country by the meager salaries they are getting.

“They are being pushed by the worsening economic crisis in the country. They are being pushed by poor working conditions: lack of equipment, lack of sundries, lack of medicines in the hospitals that they work in. We urge the government to improve working conditions, pay a living wage, you will find that people will not leave the country.”

Eustina Shava, a nurse who, is leaving Zimbabwe in May for better work in Canada, said leaving her home country is not her preference.

“But at the end of the day, we all want to achieve good things in life. We all want to buy houses, we all want to buy cars and we all want to send our children to good schools.”

She added that recruiters “have done nothing wrong. They are actually helping us to achieve certain things in life.”

Zimbabwe’s Health Services Board said in November more than 4,000 nurses have left the country since 2021.

The Zimbabwe Medical Association, says, the country has only 3,500 doctors for a population of almost 16 million people.

Healthcare workers regularly go on strike, over poor pay and working conditions.
The Zimbabwian government said it doesn’t have enough funds for raises or better equipment and in January, made it illegal for Health workers to strike for more than three days.

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