The Deputy Minister of State Administration and Civil Service, Inocêncio Impissa, said on Tuesday (15) that the government had already hired 60 doctors to meet basic health needs in the country's hospitals.

He explained that this hiring, previously announced by the Executive, was precipitated by the doctors' strike, but that it was not a substitute for the doctors missing from hospitals and health centers almost everywhere in the country.

"Yes, 60 doctors have been hired and they will be distributed among the different provinces where there is a shortage. The government has hired them, not to replace them, but so that they can continue to provide normal services to citizens. And here, they have been hired to provide assistance in terms of outpatient consultations," he said.

Impissa was speaking in Maputo after the 29th session of the Council of Ministers, where he said that the government would not meet two demands made by the Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) because they were illegal, namely the demands for seniority and overtime. Read more...

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On the other hand, the Executive clarified that the AMM should seek to debate the issues relating to its demands in the appropriate forum, and not directly with the government. In this case, according to Impissa, the Association should refer its concerns to the Human Resources Management Department, with which "the government must necessarily interact".

"What's more, it's worth saying that all these issues that have been raised by the AMM can be resolved by the Human Resources Management Department, and this sector has mechanisms to interact with those who deal with this matter, and not necessarily assume that there has been a fault, an error, and submit it to the Association and deal with it in a union way. This hasn't been the best way to do it, not least because even when brought by the Association, in order to resolve this issue, we necessarily need to interact with the human resources sector, which has to resolve this issue," he said.