Billionaire offers to pay public doctors who were on strike in Zimbabwe

Senior doctors in Zimbabwe's public hospitals were on strike for last four months and it seems that prolonged strike has finally come to an end. doctors in Zimbabwe were on strike to protest over pay and poor conditions in public hospitals in African country. Doctors have agreed to return to work after billionaire Strive Masiyiwa offered to set-up a 100 million fund to support m. Last year Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire Masiyiwa tabled an offer that would pay up to 2,000 doctors allowance of about $300 a month. 

A million-dollar bailout

According to international media reports, Masiyiwa decided to set-up a fellowship programme run by his Hiherlife Foundation that would help doctors for a period of six months. Masiyiwa is a private citizen who lives in United Kingdom and is founder and executive chairman of telecommunications, media and techlogy company Econet Wireless. After Masiyiwa's offer, Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) released a statement to confirm that y have accepted his proposal. 

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statement re, "In light of recent developments, ZHDA wants to extend its gratitude to Higherlife Foundation for extending its offer once again to all government doctors. ZHDA is encouraging its entire membership to go and apply for training fellowship before stipulated deline. ZHDA remains er and committed to engaging all responsible authorities and interested parties in finding a long-lasting solution to doctors' welfare and to working conditions in hospitals for benefit of our patients."

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Zimbabwe is currently experiencing an ecomic crisis where its currency is unable to cope with triple-digit inflation. Public doctors were demanding a pay hike as Zimbabwe was suffering from high unemployment, food shorts and rolling powder blackout. Zimbabwean government h clearly stated that it cant afford to increase salary of doctors before y downed ir tools and took to  streets to protest.  

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