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Mozambique: Doctors’ strike postponed to 2nd September, following meetings with government
1:13 CAT | 29 Jul 2024
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The Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) has decided to postpone the start of a 21-day strike due to begin this Monday until September 2, following meetings with the government.
“The strike will not begin on July 29, but will instead be postponed to September 2, so as to give the government space to find solutions and implement the issues that it promised to implement during the month of August,” president of the AMM Napoleão Viola told a press conference in Maputo on Saturday (27-07).
Viola added that, after talks with the government, it was decided to create a technical committee including members of the Ministry of Health and the AMM, “to monitor working conditions” in all health units in the country, as well as to analyse doctors’ demands regarding salary issues.
“We understand that the technicians are capable of resolving this,” Viola said, adding that, based on the fulfilment of commitments made by the government, the profession will decide in the coming weeks “whether it is worth going on strike again” for the third time in about a year.
“Healthcare units continue to lack the basics”
The previously announced list of demands includes improvements within the scope of the Single Salary Table (TSU), addressing salary cuts suffered by the class, the lack of payment of overtime “for over a year” and better working conditions.
“Our health units continue to lack the basics. We continue to work without medicines, without sufficient food for patients and without diagnostic means to help us diagnose the pathologies that affect patients,” Viola has previously stated.
The president of the AMM said in recent days that only six of the 23 points in the list of demands had been resolved since negotiations with the government began in August last year.
“What we are seeing is the continued degradation of our National Health Service. Everyone saw the plaster situation [lack of material for interventions] reported at the Nampula Central Hospital, but that is happening all over the country, including at Maputo Central Hospital,” he stressed.
Source: Deutsche Welle
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