The Medical Association of Mozambique (AMM) has decided to maintain the suspension of the class strike, which is contesting the application of the new Single Salary Table (TSU), an official from the organization announced yesterday..

"It is the decision of the medical association not to continue with the strike, at least provisionally," said Napoleão Viola, secretary general of the AMM, quoted yesterday by the newspaper O País.

On December 23, the doctors announced that they would resume work for a month, after a strike that lasted 19 days due to the holiday season.

More than 2,000 doctors joined the strike, according to the association.

According to Napoleão Viola, talks with the government are continuing in order to "seek solutions" and, depending on the results, the association may, "as is desirable, definitively call off the strike".

However, he stressed that "the medical profession still has a high level of dissatisfaction".

In November, the doctors postponed the action, after meetings with the ministers of Economy and Health, to "give the government time" to "implement the agreed principles".

However, of the 12 points of contention, agreements have been reached on eight, but the association says that the Mozambican government has complied with "only three".

The AMM points to the "constant change of interlocutors on the part of the government" and the lack of transparency about "how doctors' salaries are being processed or not" as some of the points that determined the failure of negotiations with the executive.

The implementation of the TSU, adopted in the final months of last year, has been strongly contested due to "nonconformities" presented by various professional classes in Mozambique, namely judges, teachers and doctors.