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Two laboratory technicians working on patient samples at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
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Public Lab Shortages Force Patients To Pay Privately In Zimbabwe

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa Patients are being forced to pay for laboratory tests at private facilities when public hospitals run out of reagents or experience equipment breakdowns, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora has told Parliament. Dr. Mombeshora said interruptions in the supply of laboratory reagents and periods of equipment downtime were affecting the

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Healthcare worker being assisted by colleagues to put on personal protective equipment during the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Africa Health News

67 healthcare workers killed as DRC Ebola outbreak becomes twice as large as previous record

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa At least 67 healthcare workers have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the country’s outbreak has grown to twice the size of the largest previous Ebola outbreak at a comparable stage, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). A total of 427

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