DOCTORS at public health facilities have urged their
employer not to publish doctored information on attendance statistics, but to
address outstanding issues, including remuneration and improvement of their
working conditions.
Through their representative body the Zimbabwe Hospital
Doctors Association (ZHDA), the medical practitioners said their financial
incapacitation was far from over.
They, however, clarified that it was not a strike, but
simply that they were failing to execute their duties as the means to do so
were missing.
“With grave concern, we note that the employer is
circulating falsified attendance statistics.
It is sad that the system is trying hard to ‘patch’ what it
should just fix,” the doctors said.
A week ago, Health minister Obadiah Moyo said some medical
staff in the army would help out at the public hospitals affected the most by
the job action.
Despite several meetings with the employer, the doctors
allege no plausible deal had been
brokered yet.
“We have recommenced engagements with the Health Services
Board and a written submission of what would be necessary to capacitate us was
made,” ZHDA said in a statement.
They, however, would not divulge the exact values that they
suggested to their employer
“I would like to make it very clear that any proposition
which is not a five-figure salary would actually kill the spirit for
negotiations,” the doctors said.
The doctors have said their acting president Peter
Magombeyi, who hogged the limelight following his abduction and subsequent
release, is now undergoing treatment in South Africa. Newsday
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