Nurses at Bulawayo's main hospital have joined Zimbabwean doctors in a crippling strike over poor pay, state radio reported late Wednesday, according to Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa. Only a few student nurses were looking after patients at Mpilo Hospital, the report said. Junior doctors have been on strike in Harare and the second city of Bulawayo for more than two weeks now to press for a nearly hundred-fold pay hike. Some senior doctors joined them this week. The strike by public health personnel is threatening the lives of many, said the report. Discontent is rising in Zimbabwe as professionals become frustrated with their ever-diminishing buying power. The annual inflation rate hit 1,281.1 per cent in December, according to figures released Wednesday.
