With the Doctors' strike with no end in sight, the city of Maputo continues to record, every day, stories that, in the first or third person, tell of tragic cases resulting from a strike that jeopardizes one of the citizen's fundamental rights: the right to health. This scenario is not only happening in the country's capital, as the strike is taking place all over the country.

A citizen quoted by VOA, who did not want to be identified, told the story of a double fatality resulting from the lack of care.

"Due to a lack of adequate care" someone had birth complications, lost the baby and lost their life, the source said.

In public opinion, the doctors' strike is at the top of the debates, all because with the situation with no end in sight, the feeling is of worse days ahead.

"As things stand, we can only expect worse days, because the positions have become extreme and the threats coming from all sides will not be good for users," explains Nelson Changuine, a civil servant and health service user, also quoted by the same portal.

It's worth remembering that dialogue has long since stalled, giving way to extreme positions between the government and the medical profession. Each side claims to be right in a dispute between two rights.

The doctors say that the strike is a constitutional right and the government says that there is a fundamental right above this.

"Striking is a right, yes, but above all is the right to life, above the right to strike itself," said Inocêncio Impissa, deputy minister for State Administration and the Civil Service, speaking this week at the end of the Council of Ministers session.

So far, there is no data on the impact of the strike, in terms of surgeries or specialty treatments that have not been carried out because of the strike.

In the midst of this dispute, there are those who question the executive's handling of this case, since there have been cases where legalism has been set aside.

At the beginning of June this year, nurses and technicians in the health sector announced a strike for a period of 25 days, but it was suspended four days later, following negotiations that resulted in an agreement with the government.

Journalist Reginaldo Chambule sees the executive's dual treatment of the two cases as a way of minimizing the medical profession.

"The government has stopped respecting doctors. Today the government seems to fear technicians and nurses more than doctors. When it came to the nurses, all it took was one day of strike action and the government rushed to negotiate, because they have the capacity to paralyze the entire system.

With the extreme situation, the Mozambican Bar Association (OAM) stepped in.

In a press release issued on Thursday, the Order criticized the threats made by the government, defended the right to strike and expressed its willingness to mediate in the conflict for the sake of what it calls social peace.