{"id":59434,"date":"2020-01-23T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59434"},"modified":"2020-01-23T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:57:19","slug":"billionaire-pays-zimbabwe-doctors-to-return-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59434","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire pays Zimbabwe doctors to return to work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Billionaire-pays-Zimbabwe-doctors-to-return-to-work-845083?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/422\/42270083.295.jpg\" alt=\"UK-based Strive Masiyiwa\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>UK-based Strive Masiyiwa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HARARE, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Zimbabwe&#8217;s junior doctors have agreed to return to work, ending a strike that has lasted for over four months, after they accepted an offer from a Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire.<br><br>The strike was one of the longest in the country&#8217;s history and brought the public healthcare system to its knees.<br><br>UK-based Strive Masiyiwa will pay each doctor a subsistence allowance of about $300 and provide them with transport to work, through a fund he set up.<br><br>Most of the doctors on strike were earning less than $100 a month.<br><br>The billionaire will fund the doctors for six months and it&#8217;s not clear what will happen after that.<br><br>The strike has killed an unknown number of people, according to the senior doctors&#8217; association, who have called it a &#8220;silent genocide&#8221;.<br><br>The doctors went on strike pressing for wages to be pegged to the US dollar as a cushion against rising inflation in the worst economic crisis in a decade. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based Strive Masiyiwa HARARE, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Zimbabwe&#8217;s junior doctors have agreed to return to work, ending a strike that has lasted for over four months, after they accepted an offer from a Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire. The strike was one of the longest in the country&#8217;s history and brought the public healthcare system to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}