At least 40 Zimbabwean health professionals based in South Africa have embarked on a medical mission to help fellow compatriots who are being blocked from accessing public health facilities by the infamous Operation Dudula Movement. The Movement is claiming that foreign nationals in that country were draining tax payers’ money, arguing that South Africans should be helped first.
However, medical professionals and voluntary organizations, have described the xenophobic stunt as self-defeating, remarking that it put people’s lives at risk while catastrophically reversing the gains made against tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
Meanwhile, the Zimbabwean nurses and doctors claim to have treated at least 2000 fellow immigrants; but bemoaned lack of resources. An estimated one million Zimbabweans are working and living in South Africa. The development marks the beginning of a progressive resistance to the Movement, with more calls and efforts being directed to the capacitation of the Zimbabwean medical professionals coalition
Zim Doctors, Nurses In SA Push Back Operation Dudula
