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Nurses' strike leaves doctors to provide care in Lubumbashi

By , based on Mediacongo

Map: Lubumbashi, DR Congo

Three weeks after the public health workers' strike began, doctors at Kamalondo General Referral Hospital in Lubumbashi are providing consultations and monitoring hospitalised patients. The facility has about 76 nurses and 47 doctors, whose schedules have been rearranged to maintain care, according to Radio Okapi.

At Kamalondo General Referral Hospital in Lubumbashi, doctors have been providing consultations and monitoring hospitalised patients since the public-sector nurses' strike. The facility has about 76 nurses compared with 47 doctors, according to medical director Jean-Pierre Muyabi, cited by Radio Okapi.

Doctors' schedules have been rearranged to increase their presence among patients. Two or three doctors are now assigned each day to maintain care, Jean-Pierre Muyabi explains. Hospital attendance has nevertheless fallen, according to an observation made by Radio Okapi on Saturday 7 November.

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