After a meeting with the government, the Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) decided yesterday to postpone until September 2 the start of a 21-day strike that was due to begin on Monday (29).

"The strike will not start on July 29, but will move to September 2," announced the president of AMM, Napoleão Viola, at a press conference in Maputo.

The doctors say that the postponement is intended to give the government space to find solutions and implement those issues it committed to implementing during the month of August.

The doctors also announced the creation of a technical commission between the Ministry of Health and the AMM, "to monitor working conditions" in all the country's health units, as well as to analyze the doctors' demands on salary issues.

For more than a year, doctors have been demanding a better framework within the Single Salary Table (TSU), cuts in salaries, the lack of overtime pay and better working conditions.

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Doctors resume their strike from the 29th and real chaos is expected in the health system