Chad: Poorest suffer as hospital strike enters second month

The poorest residents of the Chadian capital N’djamena are struggling to cope as a strike that has closed hospitals across the city enters a second month, and union and government leaders say they are still not ready to compromise. At 10 a.m. one Saturday morning in front of the emergency ward of the general hospital, not far from the N’djamena town hall, 50-year-old Saleh, a filthy bandage wrapped around his shoulder, stood slumped against a wall, groaning.