We Are Not Blind To Your Issues, We Are Working Hard To Assist - VP Chiwenga Urges Nurses To End Strike

Vice President and Minister Of health And Child Care Minister Constantino Chiwenga while addressing farmers at the launch of the Climate-Proofed Presidential Inputs Programme at Nyabvuti Farm in Guruve yesterday made a plea to nurses to return to work and save lives as he said the government is working hard to address their grievances, The Herald reports.

Pleading with the nurses, Chiwenga said:

We are working hard to improve our health delivery system at ward, village, district, province up to referral institutions. We are strengthening our system so that people can access medication easily.

Our health workers are on strike. We are encouraging them to return to work so we that we can save lives. While we are aware of their grievances, they should also consider saving lives. We are not blind to your issues. We are working hard to assist, but you should also consider lives of patients

Chiwenga implored the health workers to consider his pleas and said we are a family and the challenges they were facing had accumulated for long and it will take time to address them:

While we are addressing your grievances, we cannot expect a solution overnight. These challenges have been accumulating over a long period and will also take a little bit of time to be addressed.

We are one family, one people and we need to unite and help each other. We have launched the Pfumvudza programme, which is aimed at boosting agricultural productivity. But people cannot work if they are not in good health,

In conclusion, Chiwenga urged people to adhere to COVID-19 containment measures like social distancing and wearing masks and sanitising their hands.

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