{"id":709,"date":"2018-12-31T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=709"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:25:07","slug":"bid-to-replace-striking-doctors-hits-a-wall-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/bid-to-replace-striking-doctors-hits-a-wall-in-zimbabwe","title":{"rendered":"Bid to replace striking doctors hits a wall in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zimbabwe’s biggest referral hospital started turning patients away on December 29 2018 as a strike by doctors remained unresolved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Government attempts to hire recently qualified doctors to replace striking medical professionals hit a wall as graduates snubbed the offer in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

The country has two medical schools housed at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), with a combined average of about 40 graduates annually.<\/p>\n

In a letter addressed to the Health Services Board (HSB), the graduates sang the same tune as their seniors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are greatly disturbed by the ministry\u2019s efforts to undermine the genuine grievances raised by our fellow doctors and the move to try and recruit us to cover the gap created. We want to categorically state that we are in full support of our senior colleagues and believe in dialogue rather than duress,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Earlier, when vice-president Constantino Chiwenga announced the firing of at least 15,000 nurses, the government attempted to plug the gap by hiring new graduates. However, the 15,000 nurses were eventually rehired.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Government was given until New Year\u2019s Eve, Monday December 31 2018, to deal with the impasse by specialist doctors or they, too, vowed to down tools.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs senior doctors, we feel that health service units work as teams. Therefore, the absence of the juniors and middle-level doctors, and any other members of the team, critically compromises all aspect of health service delivery to patients, their communities and the public at large,\u201d Zimbabwe Medical Doctors Association (Zima) secretary-general Sacrifice Chirisa told journalists.<\/p>\n

Vice-president Chiwenga has accused medical staff of \u201cplaying with people\u2019s lives\u201d. However, there has since been somewhat of a climb-down, with negotiations set to continue on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Monday, we are resuming talks to find ways to resolve the issue, but we encourage them to go back to work whilst talks are ongoing,\u201d said health and child care minister Obadiah Moyo.<\/p>\n

By Saturday December 29 2018, the country\u2019s biggest referral hospital, Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, had started turning away patients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Since early December, Harare has been on cholera high alert after cases were detected in Mount Darwin. Cholera-related cases were being referred to Harare\u2019s Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital.<\/p>\n

Striking doctors\u2019 long-standing grievances include a call for better working conditions, the provision of drugs in hospitals and better remuneration in US dollars.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has called for a civil service-wide strike as early as January.<\/p>\n

The union has invited workers to finance minister Mthuli Ncube\u2019s offices on Monday January 7 2019 to\u00a0\u201cprotest against austerity\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur members are agitated… they want the government to pay their salaries in foreign currency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cost of living has increased, and civil servants\u2019 salaries have lost value three-fold in 2018. We therefore want salaries to be paid in foreign currency considering that most service providers now prefer payment for services in foreign currency,\u201d the teachers said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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