Mozambique: Government to hire 741 foreign doctors, 158 nationals in 2023 – A Verdade

Login

Register

http://www.clubofmozambique.com/

Mozambique: Government to hire 741 foreign doctors, 158 nationals in 2023 – A Verdade

10:22 CAT | 12 Dec 2022

Image: A Verdade

Speaking in Zambézia province after launching the Health Policy and inaugurating residences for doctors at the Quelimane Central Hospital, the President of the Republic demanded from the health professionals demanding a review of their framing in the new Single Salary Table (TSU) and the implementation of its 2013 statute, “Brothers, it’s good to let us work; don’t block our reasoning”.

“Years and years, years and years we have been uneven in salary and we, my government, took the initiative to stabilize and we are thinking more things, do not block us, we want to think more about those who suffer,” argued the Head of State citing as an example the patience of the Forces of Defence and Security who are still waiting for salaries under the new TSU.

“There are no 1st class or 2nd class employees; we have this initiative within the few possibilities that exist! In my government, there is no space for people to be afraid to talk to the members, we even talk to those who sometimes think they are ideologically different people, so let us work there.”

“There was a feeling of interrupting the TSU regime for doctors and discussing the problem until we reach a conclusion because it is not known which table we have to use, the one that the government is suggesting or those things that each day are new that the doctors who are in the field do not even know what is being discussed,” President Nyusi said.

“Someone having five and saying that now it’s 10, saying no I must be 60, why not give us time to think and get to 60 if you weren’t even seven? I’m not here to negotiate, but this country’s financial system is so small that we don’t have the capacity, this is an adventure. Instead of letting us think about how to find a solution, they are giving us work and it’s 3, 4 and 5 people who stir up the majority. I will not stop paying doctors as we calculated because of these people who are murmuring because it went from 100 to 200,” he said.

The head of state also declared that “in the districts all doctors are working, because someone woke up in Maputo, who because he is connected to politics is confusing things. They even choose, we don’t want to talk to this one we want to talk to so-and-so, why? You want to talk to so-and-so why? The person who can solve the problem you do not want!”

The collapsed National Health System, with a ratio of one doctor to 11,232 Mozambicans and one nurse to 1,754 Mozambicans, has a waiting list for consultations of at least two months, which rises to six months in cases where the patient needs a specialist,

After having ignored the Statute of Doctors in Public Administration at the beginning of its term and in 2021 having unilaterally decided to review the rights of the class, the government will next year hire 741 foreign doctors, but only 158 nationals.

By Adérito Caldeira

Watch the Miramar report.