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3:20 CAT | 15 Apr 2025
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The Association of United Mozambican Health Professionals (APSUSM) has threatened to resume its nationwide strike on Thursday if the government remains incapable of solving the matters presented by the health workers during the dialogue held between the two parties.
The strike had been planned to take place as of 31 March, allegedly because the government left the health professionals behind during its programme for its first 100 days in office. After the government scheduled a meeting, the strike was postponed. However, the APSUSM leadership is now accusing the government of not meeting the organization’s concerns, which include overtime pay and increased wages.
According to the APSUSM chairperson, Anselmo Muchave, who was speaking to reporters on Monday in Maputo, during the first phase of the strike the health workers will suspend hospital care outside of normal hours, from 7.30am to 3.30pm, and will not work on public holidays and weekends.
He explained that the measure is aimed at pressuring the government so that it may provide better working conditions, a reliable supply of medicines, medical and surgical equipment, food for hospitalized patients, as well as more hospital beds to avoid overcrowding.
“The failure to pay overtime, shift allowances and even the weekly rest recommended by law has led health professionals to suspend their shift work, as a way of guaranteeing the government peace of mind in calculating and finding the budget for the appropriate payments”, he said.
“This will be the first phase of the strike, because the government is doing nothing to meet the demands of the health professionals”, he added.
Muchave also said the organization recommended that those workers who face shortages of working materials in their sectors should not try any alternative means, “but wait for the government to provide them.”
“This government is not serious. Unlike in the past, we’re not getting answers outside of the dishonesty we’ve been seeing since the beginning of this round of negotiations”, he said
Source: AIM
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