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Strikes and Protests 2007/8 - Doctors and Nurses strikes
Striking
physicians in Zimbabwe state hospitals head back to wards
Carole Gombakomba, VOA News
June 11, 2007
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Striking junior and senior
resident doctors at Zimbabwean state-run hospitals in Harare and
Bulawayo said Monday they would return to work Tuesday following
the receipt of government bank deposits in their accounts over the
weekend. Other health care workers and hospital support staff returned
to work last Thursday.
The residents had demanded
that their monthly salaries be increased to at least Z$70 million
plus car loans of US$3,000. It was not clear whether the government
met those demands - a representative of doctors said he could not
disclose how much was paid to the residents because negotiations
with the Health Minister are still in progress.
Hospital Doctors Association
President Amon Siveregi told reporter Carole Gombakomba of VOA's
Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that the residents' decision to return to
wards was also prompted by the knowledge that patients were suffering.
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