Zimbabwean authorities are resorting to heavy-handed measures to ensure its health system remains afloat and medical professionals remain in the country. But many are still hoping to find better opportunities abroad.
For the past four years, Zimbabwean nurse Setfree Mafukidze has been calling Northern Ireland her new home.
He is part of a growing wave of health professionals who are leaving Zimbabwe in search of better career opportunities, safer working conditions and better pay in the United Kingdom and beyond.
"I loved my job back home, but the conditions made it impossible to keep going," Mafukidze told DW.
"You reach a point where you feel you're giving everything and getting nothing back."
There usually are long queues outside healthcare facilities across Zimbabwe, as the shortage in healthcare professionals means that individual nurses are now responsibile for catchment areas of up to 10,000 individuals Image: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo/picture alliance
Low salaries and poor working con
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