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Zimbabwe: Editorial Comment - Civil Servants Must Reconfigure Thinking

[The Herald] The return to normal shifts by all nurses in the public sector, with modest groups in central hospitals being the last to do so, is very welcome, since the health of the vast majority, those who cannot afford the very expensive private care now on offer, was at serious risk.

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