{"id":13699,"date":"2019-09-17T17:51:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13699"},"modified":"2019-09-17T17:51:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:51:29","slug":"striking-doctors-blocked-from-confronting-mnangagwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/striking-doctors-blocked-from-confronting-mnangagwa","title":{"rendered":"Striking doctors blocked from confronting Mnangagwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOZENS of striking Zimbabwean doctors in Harare were Monday blocked within just a hundred mitres from marching to President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emmerson_Mnangagwa\">Emmerson Mnangagwa<\/a>\u2019s Munhumutapa offices amid fears for the State leader\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors marched for nearly a kilometre from Parirenyatwa Hospital intending to petition Mnangagwa on the abduction on Saturday of their union leader Peter Mugombeyi by suspected State agents.<\/p>\n<p>They found themselves restricted within a hundred mitres from Munhumutapa building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zhda.co.zw\/\">Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association<\/a> (ZHDA) vice president, Dean Ndoro later said they were stopped by the police for security reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were stopped by the police within the law worrying that people might take advantage of our demonstration and we wouldn\u2019t be secure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said they are comfortable with us scheduling the demo within the hospital premises and now being in the public areas, you don\u2019t know who might infiltrate the demonstration. People with personal and private opinions may try to manipulate the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obliged in their laws and just allowed a few members of our association to go and present the matter to the President\u2019s office and we agreed on the terms and conditions they gave us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In their petition, the doctors said they had withdrawn their services from both public and private hospitals to press for better salaries and for the release of their colleague.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the meantime,\u201d read the petition, \u201cWe have withdrawn our services as from 0800hrs 16th September 2019 as medical practitioners from both public and private sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists during Monday\u2019s demonstration, Tapiwa Mungofa, ZHDA treasurer general said they will not go back to work until their leader was released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now very worried and we are calling our security forces to work extra hard in trying to find our colleague so that we can go back to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are declaring the immediate release of Peter. We want the employers to look at our salaries as Zimbabwean doctors so we can be capacitated to go back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Magombeyi was allegedly abducted after leading the pay strike, the umpteenth such job action by the health staff in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>A junior doctor at entry level earns just over $400 as gross monthly salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOZENS of striking Zimbabwean doctors in Harare were Monday blocked within just a hundred mitres from marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s Munhumutapa offices amid fears for the State leader\u2019s security. 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