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Zimbabwe doctors' advice: Don't get sick

International Herald Tribune: "HARARE, Zimbabwe: The advice of doctors to Zimbabweans is, don't get sick. If you do, don't count on hospitals — they are short of drugs and functioning equipment.
As the economy collapses, the laboratory at a main 1,000-bed hospital has virtually shut down. X-ray materials, injectable antibiotics and anticonvulsants have run out.
Emergency resuscitation equipment is out of action. Patients needing casts for broken bones need to bring their own plaster. In a country with one of the world's worst AIDS epidemics, medical staff lack protective gloves"

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