Striking doctors to be marked absent and disciplinary proceedings opened

Login

Register

http://www.clubofmozambique.com/

Striking doctors to be marked absent and disciplinary proceedings opened

2:47 CAT | 19 Jul 2023

File photo: O País

The government, in the person of the Council of Ministers, says that striking doctors are not fulfilling their minimum terms of services as established by law, and will therefore consider them absent from work and open disciplinary proceedings against them.

“The guarantee of minimum services in our health units is an obligation of the striking doctors, mainly due to the need to preserve life as a fundamental right enshrined in our Constitution and other instruments,” Council of Ministers spokesman Filimão Suazi said. “It is noted, however, that the strikers are not guaranteeing the provision of medical services in certain health units.”

The government says that, as a result, “the marking of absences will continue, the consequences of which are contained in the General Statute of State Employees and other instruments. Depending on the observance of a certain number of absences, it is considered abandonment of place, and instruction of the disciplinary process”.

Among the doctors’ list of claims, Filimão Suazi reiterated that the executive had only failed to revise the formulas for calculating daytime and overtime allowances. Regarding complaints of persecution, he recommended doctors to report individual cases to the authorities.

The Council of Ministers session also approved the projects for the Prevention and Combat of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, and for the Prevention, Repression and Combat of Terrorism and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, proposals for which will be submitted to parliament.

Source: O País