The Medical Association of Mozambique (AMM) announced, this Tuesday, the guidelines for the third national strike of the class, as a way to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with 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 that the strike will begin next 07 and will be 21 days extendable.

The most recent class communiqué that reached the MZNews editorial office details that the doctors will suspend all public health services; teaching in training centers, institutes and universities; tutoring and supervision of interns in health units; external consultations including those of special care; elective surgeries; and diagnostic exams of an elective nature.

However, the AMM statement considers ensuring minimum services, and "the doctors in each sector should draw up schedules that ensure their provision.

Thus, it provides for the continuity of adult and pediatric emergency and resuscitation services; gynecology emergency and delivery rooms; emergency operating rooms; inpatient services; and imaging services.

The document also establishes the scale that should be followed by doctors during the strike throughout the country. On the other hand, among other rules, it determines that during the strike, doctors in the sectors covered by the measure should not go to the workplaces, including those not scheduled to provide any kind of support.

The AMM justifies the decisions with the fact that the Government, for several years, has maintained a posture of non-compliance with most of the rights contained in the Statute of Physicians in Public Administration and its respective regulation.

"This year, the AMM requested the intervention of the Ombudsman, but the Ministry of Health (MISAU) and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) have always used subterfuges to not comply with the law," one reads.