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7:37 CAT | 23 Aug 2023
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The Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) has decided to suspend the strike which has lasted more than 30 days. Doctors return to work tomorrow (Thursday), while hoping to see progress in negotiations by October 2nd.
The creation of a new team, led by the Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane, to negotiate with the doctors, c led the class, to decide to return to work.
It is a new chapter that begins in the process of negotiations between the Government and the doctors, who were in an arm of iron due to the classification in the Single Salary Table contested by the class.
According to the President of the Mozambican Medical Association, Milton Tatia, the decision to suspend the strike aims is to give time and space to the new negotiating team announced this Tuesday by the Government, to bring positive responses to their claims.
Among the urgent claims are the improvement of food conditions and of the precarious conditions of some health units.
The doctors’ strike involved more than two thousand professionals from across the country and the suspension comes after two extensions
Source: O País
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