The Single Wage Table (TSU) is generating great pandemonium in the civil service. With five days left before the start of their strike, doctors are determined to follow what for now is a harbinger of chaos in the national health system. With their fists clenched, the class is threatening to paralyze the National Health Service...
Doctors will suspend all public health service including teaching activities
The Medical Association of Mozambique (AMM) announced on Tuesday the guidelines of the third national strike of the class, as a way to demonstrate their dissatisfaction for the new salaries framed in the Single Wage Table (TSU). The AMM announced last week part of the agenda of a general strike called by the medical class. In a document, the doctors said...
Health Minister calls for calm among doctors in the face of TSU application errors
The Minister of Health of, Armindo Tiago, asked on Friday for calm in the face of the threat of a general strike of doctors, who contest irregularities in its framework in the new Single Wage Table (TSU), promising that the errors will be corrected. "What we must say to calm the whole society is that the TSU should be seen...
Doctors Flee the State for NGOs
The doctors assigned to Vilankulo Rural Hospital, in the north of Inhambane province, are abandoning their jobs to join Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), denounced the administrator Edmundo Galiza Matos Junior. The doctors "swindle" the state with supposed intentions to continue their studies, whose requests for 11 doctors have had approvals....
Zimbabwean doctors, nurses and teachers on strike
Doctors, nurses and teachers went on strike today in Zimbabwe to protest their low pay, amid a new financial crisis in the country, writes Lusa news agency. According to the publication, the health workers gathered with placards outside the offices of the Health Services Board at one of the country's largest hospitals....
Doctors transplant pig heart to person with heart disease
In an unprecedented surgery, a 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease received a successful transplant of a genetically engineered pig heart and is still doing well three days later. The Portuguese-language news site, e- Global, reports. According to the site's publication, the historic surgery was conducted by faculty...