Doctors across Zimbabwe go on strike over pay, drug shortages

A passer-by looks at a woman lying outside the Parirenyatwa hospital in the capital Harare [Reuters]

Doctors at public hospitals across Zimbabwe have gone on strike and will not return to work until the government meets their demands for better pay and working conditions, a spokesman for a doctors' unions said on Tuesday.

The action is the first major labour dispute under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who replaced Robert Mugabe in November and whose biggest challenge is fixing Zimbabwe's economy ruined by decades of severe mismanagement.