The Ministry of Health (MISAU) says it is working to resolve the concerns of the national medical profession and has promised to pay health professionals overtime up to 2020 this month. Next month it is due to pay the overtime arrears for 2022 and 2023. The payment of other remuneration...
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Doctors announce return to strike starting Monday in claim to pay cuts
Mozambican doctors announced on Wednesday a new 21-day nationwide strike, starting on Monday, protesting against salary cuts resulting from the application of the new civil service pay scale and the lack of overtime payments. According to the president of the Mozambican Medical Association (AMM), Milton Tatie, this is once again a national strike,...
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Doctors go back on strike for working conditions
The Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) called the press yesterday to announce a third strike, the start date of which will be announced this Friday (09). Through their president, Milton Tatia, the doctors say they are going to resume the strike, allegedly because the government is not complying with what was agreed. "The government has not been serious,...
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Partnership launched for the promotion and protection of human rights in Mozambique
The Mozambican Network of Human Rights Defenders (RMDDH), the Mozambican Medical Association (AMM) and the Mozambican Psychology Association (APM) launched a partnership to promote and protect human rights in Mozambique. The event to launch the partnership took place on March 27 in Maputo. Under...
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MISAU will recruit doctors for the peripheral health centers
The Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago, said last Saturday that the health sector will recruit more doctors for the peripheral Health Centers, as a way of responding to complaints from users. In recent months, Maputo's Central Hospital, especially the pediatric services, has been experiencing unusual flooding due to...
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Doctors suspend strike to ensure tranquility during the festive season
The Medical Association of Mozambique announced on Thursday (22) the suspension of the strike it had been holding since the beginning of the month, in an alleged response to the popular appeal to ensure tranquility during the festive season. The association says it is responding to popular demand to ensure a peaceful festive season, in case...
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PR urges doctors to return to work
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, has once again urged Mozambican doctors to suspend their strike and return to work quickly, in order to attend to the patients who need them so much. The request was expressed yesterday at the reception offered by the Head of State to the heads of government and other national leaders on the occasion...
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State will deduct striking doctors' salaries - says Armindo Tiago
Doctors who do not return to work following the strike will have their salaries deducted, said the Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago, during a working visit to Quelimane Central Hospital. The minister justified the measure by saying that the civil service is governed by rules and these will be complied with, explaining...
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Government invites doctors to return to work
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, yesterday called on doctors and other health professionals to suspend the strike they have been observing since Monday and return to work immediately. The request was made yesterday at the inauguration ceremony of the doctors' residential complex at Quelimane Central Hospital, in Zambézia, where he considered dialogue to be the...
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Government announces consensus, but doctors want more to avoid a strike
With about two weeks to go until the announced strike by doctors in the National Health System, the Mozambican government has announced consensus on the solution to the main point in the list of demands, but the doctors say that the concessions made are insufficient to avoid a strike. The strike is scheduled to begin on December 5th...