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Mozambique: Health ministry says will pay doctors’ overtime for 2022 and 2023 as from August
11:55 CAT | 12 Jul 2023
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Mozambique’s ministry of health (MISAU) said on Tuesday that it would pay the outstanding amounts related to overtime for 2022 and 2023 to doctors from August, on the second day of the professionals’ strike.
“Overtime for 2022 and 2023 will be paid from August,” said Manuel Macebe, deputy director of human resources at the ministry, quoted by Rádio Moçambique.
The Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) is holding the second day of a 21-day national strike in protest against wage cuts and lack of overtime payments.
Manuel Macebe asked that doctors continue to work with the ministry and the government to jointly “overcome the issues that are being raised” at the discussion table by health professionals. Speaking to Lusa on Monday,
Milton Tatia, president of AMM, called the strike “very good”, saying that between 2,000 and 2,500 doctors were expected to stop work, including approximately 1,600 members of the association, but the exact number of professionals participating has yet to be determined.
It is the second doctors’ strike in less than a year, following the suspension of another one called in December, with the lack of results in the understandings reached with the government in the negotiations held at the end of last year.
In addition to the doctors, the Association of United and Solidarity Health Professionals of Mozambique was also on strike last month, challenging the application of the new salary scale (TSU), having given the government a deadline of 60 days to resolve at least part of the professionals’ demands.
The implementation of the new salary scale in the civil service is being strongly contested by several professional classes, especially doctors, judges and teachers.
Source: Lusa
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