Mozambique: Doctors remain dissatisfied with TSU, strike still scheduled for December – O País

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Mozambique: Doctors remain dissatisfied with TSU, strike still scheduled for December – O País

3:16 CAT | 22 Nov 2022

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Doctors still intend to strike on December 5th, because they feel that the new Single Salary Table (TSU) criteria do not fully respond to the concerns raised.

The Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) was reacting to the new TSU criteria announced this Monday by the Ministry of State Administration and Civil Service.

The medical professionals say their claims have not yet been completely resolved, AMM secretary general Napoleão Viola explains.

“It responds partially, with regard to the risk subsidy and exclusivity subsidy. But as for the location subsidy, it does not,” Viola said.

The AMM says that the decision to strike at national level will remain in place until the complaints contained in the claim booklet are resolved.

“The strike is still scheduled, and what we hope is that the government can respond effectively, but what we notice is that the spirit of dialogue is reducing, because, even after we postponed the strike, we did not receive any information from official bodies,” Viola reiterated.

A statement from the AMM board of directors explained that it was aware that the human resources departments of some hospitals had made mistakes in the framing of specialist doctors, not considering the time as a general practitioner or resident doctor (sometimes suppressing more than seven years of career experience), in violation of Number 3 of Article 6 of Decree nº 50/2022 of 14 October, which says that “for cases of careers that result from conversion, the effective time in the career counts from the career source”.

This irregularity was reported to the Ministry of Health’s National Directorate of Human Resources on November 11th, but so far, the AMM says, there has been no attempt to correct the error.

Source: O País