Nurses yet to receive training and protective clothing for Covid-19

ZIMBABWE faces the grim prospect of failing to contain the coronavirus after it emerged yesterday that the country’s health professionals were yet to receive the requisite training and protective clothing to handle the pandemic. The Zimbabwe Nurses Association yesterday gave the government a 24-hour ultimatum to address their concern, failing which they would down their tools. “Our concerns are genuine, the COVID-19 is a new disease and the current nurses have never learned about it. Our government is very slow in responding; the nurses have no information on the virus except reading the guideline on social media and newspapers. We are giving government 24 hours to address our concerns or else we will withdraw our services because we cannot put our members at risk,” Zina president Enock Dongo told _Newsday