{"id":231112,"date":"2026-04-23T03:38:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-allow-space-for-constructive-dialogue-for-patients-sake-government-pleads-with-striking-nurses-to-return-to-work\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:38:57","slug":"zimbabwe-allow-space-for-constructive-dialogue-for-patients-sake-government-pleads-with-striking-nurses-to-return-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-allow-space-for-constructive-dialogue-for-patients-sake-government-pleads-with-striking-nurses-to-return-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Allow Space for Constructive Dialogue for Patients&#8217; Sake &#8211; Government Pleads With Striking Nurses to Return to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Discover moreZimbabwean art printsCyber security solutionsZimbabwean fashion apparelZimbabwe&#8217;s government scrambled into crisis mode on Monday as a nationwide nurses&#8217; strike crippled public hospitals, forcing Health Minister Douglas Mombeshora to make an urgent appeal for the healthworkers to return to work while promising to address their grievances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The industrial action over low pay and deteriorating working conditions, disrupted services at major referral hospitals, leaving patients stranded&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604220491.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover moreZimbabwean art printsCyber security solutionsZimbabwean fashion apparelZimbabwe&#8217;s government scrambled into crisis mode on Monday as a nationwide nurses&#8217; strike crippled public hospitals, forcing Health Minister Douglas Mombeshora to make an urgent appeal for the healthworkers to return to work while promising to address their grievances. The industrial action over low pay and deteriorating working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,17184,6688,6427,257,9468,4991,10427,6656,42952,254,5215,11934,6100,4686,421],"class_list":["post-231112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-constructive","tag-dialogue","tag-government","tag-news","tag-nurses","tag-patients","tag-pleads","tag-return","tag-sake","tag-south-africa-today","tag-space","tag-striking","tag-work","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}