Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>MUTARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) \u2013 Struggling to survive on her meagre salary, Zimbabwean nurse Jane decided to start a new life abroad but, one year after landing a job in Britain, she is still waiting to pack her bags.<\/p>\nJane is not alone. Zimbabwean nurses eager to escape deepening poverty say their government is barring them from pursuing opportunities overseas as it seeks to stem a brain drain of health workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government is holding me to ransom now,\u201d said Jane, 35, who only used her first name for fear of reprisals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really worried I might not be able to leave,\u201d added the single mother-of-three who can no longer afford to eat lunch as sky-high inflation sabotages her finances.<\/p>\n
Nurses say the authorities are frustrating their efforts to migrate by failing to provide a crucial document confirming their professional status without which they cannot take up overseas jobs.<\/p>\n
The Health Ministry took over the issuing of \u201cverification letters\u201d early last year from the Nurses Council of Zimbabwe \u2013 the profession\u2019s regulatory body \u2013 which used to turn them around within days.<\/p>\n
Unions in the southern African country estimate that thousands of nurses are affected.<\/p>\n
Simbarashe Tafirenyika, president of the Zimbabwe Urban and Rural Council Nurses Workers Union, said some ministry officials were exploiting the situation by demanding hefty bribes to expedite documents.<\/p>\n
The government, which has also doubled the document application fee to $300, did not respond to requests for comment, but ministers have repeatedly voiced concern over the exodus of doctors and nurses abroad.<\/p>\n
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who has announced plans to criminalise the foreign recruitment of health staff, says it is wrong that Zimbabwe spends vast sums training health workers only for them to be poached by richer countries.<\/p>\n
But nurses say it is unfair for the government to stop them leaving when many of them earn less than $100 a month.=<\/p>\n
RED LIST<\/b><\/p>\n
More than 4,000 health workers, including more than 2,600 nurses, left Zimbabwe in 2021 and 2022, according to official statistics.<\/p>\n
Traditional destinations include Canada, Australia and Britain where the starting salary for a nurse is about \u00a328,400 ($34,490).<\/p>\n
The World Health Organization this year added Zimbabwe to a \u201cred list\u201d of countries with pressing health worker shortages.<\/p>\n
In 2020, Zimbabwe had 2.1 nurses and midwives per 1,000 people, less than a quarter of the number in Britain, according to the latest World Bank data.<\/p>\n
Britain, which relies heavily on overseas trained nurses to plug its own staff shortages, has stopped actively recruiting from Zimbabwe. However, this does not prevent nurses applying for jobs directly.<\/p>\n
More than 4,330 nurses trained in Zimbabwe are registered with Britain\u2019s Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for NMC said it was aware of the issue with verification letters in Zimbabwe although some were still coming through.<\/p>\n
Union president Tafirenyika said nurses were also migrating without verification letters to do non-nursing jobs.<\/p>\n
He said some were even taking short first aid courses in order to get an internationally recognised \u201cnurse aid\u201d certificate \u2013 a route to less skilled jobs in health and social care.<\/p>\n
STRIKE BAN<\/b><\/p>\n
Jane, who has 10 years\u2019 experience, works at a hospital in the capital Harare. But her $200 monthly salary does not cover her bills so she also sells clothes and perfumes online.<\/p>\n
Other nurses she knows juggle hospital shifts with selling clothes and groceries illegally on the streets where they are often chased by police.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey endure all this to put food on the table,\u201d Jane said. \u201cSome nurses spend the whole day without eating anything at work.\u201d<\/p>\n
A significant problem for nurses is that their salary is paid in a mix of US dollars and Zimbabwean dollars.<\/p>\n
With most shops and businesses charging in US dollars, nurses have to convert the portion paid in local currency, which has plunged in value this year.<\/p>\n
Jane said 5% of her salary vanished in bank charges and a quarter went on commuting to and from her home in Harare\u2019s outskirts.<\/p>\n
Thousands of nurses and doctors went on strike last year demanding a major pay raise and calling for their wages to be paid entirely in US dollars.<\/p>\n
In January, Zimbabwe banned healthcare workers from striking for more than three days, introducing penalties of up to six months in jail.<\/p>\n
PATIENTS PAY FOR OWN DRUGS<\/b><\/p>\n
Nurses said they were also frustrated working in a broken health system with little opportunity to further their careers.<\/p>\n
Hospitals not only lack equipment, including ventilators and X-ray machines, but even painkillers and rubber gloves can be in short supply.<\/p>\n
Nurses said patients often had to buy their own drugs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation is really pitiful,\u201d said Jane. \u201cThere\u2019s no equipment for some procedures leading to a lot of cancellations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWomen are delivering babies without linen and have to sleep on the floor after giving birth. There is no lignocaine (local anaesthetic) if they need stitches so they have to buy it themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tanaka, 28, who works at another Harare hospital, is also demoralised.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough to ask patients to buy their own drugs \u2013 imagine, even paracetamol!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe work without PPE (protective clothing). I fear for my health. Enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tanaka had hoped to relocate to Britain in the summer after receiving a job offer last year but is still awaiting her verification letter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was afraid when they said they want to bring in a law to bar us from going. That is scary,\u201d said Tanaka, who only gave her first name.<\/p>\n
Migrating is not cheap. She has already spent $1,200 on taking a professional exam required to be able to work in Britain and on other expenses.<\/p>\n
She also needs to pay for an English language test and TB test but has put these on hold amid uncertainty over whether the government will issue her document.<\/p>\n
Tanaka, who has a 5-year-old daughter, knows life in Britain is expensive \u2013 average monthly rents top \u00a32,000 in parts of London \u2013 but she says she cannot afford to stay in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
\u201cI take home a paltry $200. It\u2019s not enough to feed my family or even buy clothes for my kid. I have no choice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
(Additional reporting by Emma Batha; Writing by Emma Batha. Editing by Clar Ni Chonghaile.<\/p>\n
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