HEALTH minister David Parirenyatwa is today expected to meet members of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors’ Association (ZHDA) to finalise deliberations on their salary review demands and end the doctors’ week-long strike.
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Some 400 junior doctors at public hospitals countrywide downed tools last Monday demanding an upward review of their allowances and general improvement of their working conditions.
ZHDA secretary-general Farai Makoni said negotiations were ongoing and they were now waiting for government to finalise on their requests.
“The doctors are still on strike, we will finalise tomorrow (today) after our meeting with government on the way forward,” Makoni said. “We are waiting for our employer to assure us in writing of a fixed date when reviewed on-call allowances will be disbursed.
“The ZHDA members shall reconvene through their normal channels as soon as they get fixed dates on when they will receive their allowances as demanded and agreed.”
Contacted for comment, Health deputy minister Paul Chimedza said: “Wait for tomorrow (today).”
The doctors are demanding that their salaries be reviewed from the current $282 to a minimum of $1 200 per month excluding allowances.
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They are also demanding free accommodation at government-owned flats.
The medical practitioners also said the government must reinstate the facility where doctors can import vehicles duty-free and provide adequate infection prevention equipment against the deadly Ebola virus.
