Front Line is seriously concerned by reports received of violent police repression of a peaceful demonstration of health workers at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, on 18 November 2008. The march had been organised by health workers from Harare Central and Parirenyatwa Hospitals to protest against the collapse of the public health system. They had planned to march to the offices of the Minister of Health and Child Welfare to present a petition calling for urgent action to be taken to restore accessible and affordable health care in Zimbabwe. 
