Doctors' strike looms as govt gets 14-day ultimatum

Junior medical doctors from all the country's major referral hospitals have given the government a 14-day ultimatum to review their salaries and on-call allowances, failure of which they will down their tools.

The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association yesterday wrote to the Health and Child Care ministry demanding an urgent review of their working conditions and a comprehensive response to the possibility of an Ebola outbreak.

The doctors are demanding that their salaries be reviewed from the current $282 to a minimum of $1 200 per month excluding allowances.

They called upon the government not to charge rentals on doctors residing in government-provided accommodation.

The medical practitioners also said the government must reinstate the facility where doctors would import vehicles duty-free.