The health professionals at the Marracuene District Health Center in Maputo province stopped work today to demand payment of their seniority allowances. According to the professionals, the payments stopped in 2022, and since then they have only received promises. "We generally want to be paid our...
Nurses who are not registered with the Order of Nurses in Mozambique have 45 days to regularize their situation at the risk of being fined and even imprisoned in accordance with the law. The decision is contained in a communiqué from the Order of Nurses quoted by "O País" in which it sets a deadline of 45 days for all nurses to...
This year, the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has hired more than 700 health professionals to respond to the cholera emergency in the country. Another 500 health technicians from the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Nampula, Sofala, Zambézia, Tete, Manica and Maputo have been trained in the fight against cholera since January...
All over the country, hospital users are complaining about the lack of medicines in their pharmacies. For example, in Nampula, between 2022 and 2024, six health sector professionals were found to be diverting drugs for illegal sale. According to the provincial chief medical officer, Selma Xavier, the...
The government will "soon" resolve the concerns of health professionals and teachers, spokesman Filimão Suaze said on Tuesday. "On the government side, through the line ministries, measures are being taken to mitigate any adverse effects of the absence of either professional," he assured. Speaking to the press after the...
The Order of Nurses of Mozambique (OEM) says it will not recognize the certificates obtained by nursing students at the ISCED Open University, a private higher education institution dedicated to the online model. The issue is the lack of a laboratory at this educational institution for students to combine theoretical knowledge with practice. For the Order of...
Five journalists and two local media professionals were killed by Israeli shelling between Saturday and Sunday, bringing to 42 the number of reporters killed since the start of the war. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit organization that fights for free journalism around the world, by...
The spokesman for the Council of Ministers said this Tuesday in Maputo that there is no orientation to persecute or intimidate the health professionals who are joining the doctors' strike. Filimão Suazi, who was speaking at the end of another session of the Council of Ministers, said there was no evidence of cases of...
The Minister of Health says that a strike is not the way to resolve the concerns of the Association of Health Professionals. Armindo Tiago says that they should resort to dialog and present their demands to the government. About two weeks ago, a group of health professionals, called the Association of Health Professionals,...
Mozambican professionals are among those chosen to apply for the StartMe corporate internship program run by the Portuguese group MotaEngil. This 10th edition will see the largest number of vacancies, totaling 226, for which citizens of other countries such as Angola, Brazil, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Malawi, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru,...