Zimbabwe’s doctors have agreed to return to work after accepting a funding offer from a billionaire, ending a prolonged strike.<\/p>\n
The strike over pay and poor conditions lasted more than four months, paralysing the country’s healthcare sector.<\/p>\n
Last year, Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire Strive Masiyiwa tabled an offer to break the impasse.<\/p>\n
Mr Masiyiwa said he would set up a 100m Zimbabwean dollar ($6.25m; \u00a34.8m) fund.<\/p>\n
He said this fund would pay up to 2,000 doctors a subsistence allowance of about US$300 a month to help them with transport and living costs.<\/p>\n
‘My cousin died as the doctors are all on strike’
\nThe billionaire, a private citizen who lives in the UK, will fund the doctors for six months through a fellowship programme run by his Higherlife Foundation, a charitable organisation.<\/p>\n
What happens after that period, however, is not clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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