Mozambique: Members of parliament support the fight against coronavirus with 3.1 million meticais – photos

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Mozambique: Members of parliament support the fight against coronavirus with 3.1 million meticais – photos

1:46 CAT | 05 May 2020

All photos: Courtesy of MISAU

A little more than three million meticais, more specifically 3,187,979 [around US$46,944 at current exchange rates], was handed over to the Government of Mozambique on Monday as a contribution from the deputies of the Assembly of the Republic to the efforts to halt the spread of the new coronavirus in the country.

The money was handed over to the Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago, by the President of Parliament, Esperança Bias, who explained that it represented voluntary deductions from deputies’ salaries.

The 3,187,979 meticais represents a four-day pay-cut in the salaries of the deputies on the Frelimo bench, a three-day cut from the Renamo parliamentary group and an equal three-day cut from the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM).

Esperança Bias said that the initiative of the three parliamentary benches joined the efforts of the government, partners and society as a whole to prevent and contain Covid-19.

“We must all do what we can to ensure that this pandemic does not spread. We want to thank the government, through the Ministry of Health, for having anticipated matters, permitting the control, as far as possible, of the pandemic’s spread,” Bias said, calling for the continued dissemination of information and training of citizens in the prevention of the disease.

Receiving the donation, Minister Armindo Tiago thanked the parliamentarians for their contribution towards the containment of Covid-19, promising that the amount would be used for exclusively the purposes envisaged.

Tiago said that, in the face of this type of gesture, words were of little use, and that the parliamentarians’ gesture was a demonstration of affection for the work carried out by the Ministry of Health and the entire government in the prevention and fight against the spread of Covid-19.

“We will make rational use of these resources and, with all due transparency, account for the application of the amounts made available to support the health sector’s efforts,” the Minister of Health promised.

Source: Noticias