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Junior doctors strike ends
02 Apr 2016 at 17:35hrs | Views
The impasse between the government and the junior medical doctors over contracts has been resolved.
All doctors who had embarked on industrial action have been advised to go back to work.
The junior doctors who were supposed to sign the adjusted contracts on the 1st of March refused to do so claiming they violated their human rights.
More than 60 junior doctors refused to sign contracts alleging they were not happy with the scrapping of the US$300 housing allowance.
They viewed the scrapping of the allowance as an attempt to force doctors into government accommodation at hospitals.
The Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Aldrin Musiiwa says the two sides have since met and resolved the matter, adding all the junior doctors who were not reporting for duty are expected to resume work with immediate effect.
The contract, according to the doctors, denied female doctors maternity leave if they fell pregnant during the two years they would be attached.
The industrial action by the junior doctors had made the situation at Harare hospital and Mpilo hospital in Bulawayo dire with indications that the outpatients departments were no longer attending to cases not considered urgent.
All doctors who had embarked on industrial action have been advised to go back to work.
The junior doctors who were supposed to sign the adjusted contracts on the 1st of March refused to do so claiming they violated their human rights.
More than 60 junior doctors refused to sign contracts alleging they were not happy with the scrapping of the US$300 housing allowance.
The Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Aldrin Musiiwa says the two sides have since met and resolved the matter, adding all the junior doctors who were not reporting for duty are expected to resume work with immediate effect.
The contract, according to the doctors, denied female doctors maternity leave if they fell pregnant during the two years they would be attached.
The industrial action by the junior doctors had made the situation at Harare hospital and Mpilo hospital in Bulawayo dire with indications that the outpatients departments were no longer attending to cases not considered urgent.
Source - zbc
