Zimbabwe doctors' advice: Don't get sick

[Doctor Cynic]

Source: AP

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- The advice of doctors to Zimbabweans is, don't get sick. If you do, don't count on hospitals - they're short of drugs and functioning equipment.

As the economy collapses, the laboratory at a main 1,000-bed hospital has virtually shut down. X-ray materials, injectable antibiotics and anticonvulsants have run out.

Emergency resuscitation equipment is out of action. Patients needing casts for broken bones need to bring their own plaster. In a country with one of the world's worst AIDS epidemics, medical staff lack protective gloves.

Health authorities blame the drying up of foreign aid under Western sanctions imposed to end political and human rights abuses under President Robert Mugabe. A power-sharing agreement aimed at bringing the opposition into the government could open the gates to foreign aid. But negotiations have stalled over how much power rests with Mugabe.

Read more: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1105ap_dying_zimbabwe.html

[UrbScotty]

1. I think that's the US Republican Party's healthcare plan too

[kestrel91316]

4. Well, the RW's plan does include prayer, so it's a far better plan.

[valerief]

2. Zimbabwe must be modeling their health care system after ours. nt

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. and Mugabe just gave $100,000 cash to a Rhodesian athlete

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3882478

The DU Robert Mugabe Fan Club really doesn't like it when Mugabe's "special relationship" with the privillaged whites is brought up.

[rpannier]

6. Robert Mugabe is a victim

A victim of his own incompetance, rampant cronyism and meglomania

[davidinalameda]

7. great sig line!

the Mugabe fan club sounds a lot like the St. Hugo fan club

[rpannier]

8. They run in the same circles

Once in a great while you'll even find a Gim Jeong-il (North Korea) defender (luke-warm) in the bunch.

[davidinalameda]

9. I've missed that

thank goodness

[bullwinkle428]

5. Maybe all of the Libertarian ass-nozzle Paultards can move there,

as it certainly sounds like their idea of paradise!