Doctors sue Zimbabwe government over lack of Covid-19 protective equipment
by Nyasha Chingono in Harare from Science | The Guardian on (#51XVR)
Court application warns 'many lives will be lost' without urgent action to provide face masks
The Zimbabwean government has been taken to court over its failure to provide doctors working on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic with masks.
The Zimbabwe Association for Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) is seeking to compel the authorities urgently to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical practitioners, warning that medics in the country's troubled health sector will otherwise die.
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