THE Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors’ Association (ZHDA) has appealed for President Robert Mugabe’s intervention to resolve its salary deadlock with the Health Services Board (HSB) which has resulted in newly-qualified doctors going unpaid for two months
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The ZHDA wants the HSB dissolved for failing to champion doctors’ salary cause and its recent decision to issue new contracts to enforce discipline and ensure medical students on housemanship abide by a strict code of conduct.
In a statement, ZHDA president Fortune Nyamande said: “We look forward to the day when the President will review the HSB and give it a fresh mandate and direction.”
He added: “The ZHDA, on behalf of our newly-qualified doctors, calls upon the President to direct the Health Services Board to end this madness where our new doctors have not been remunerated for the past two months.
“We call upon the President to also immediately investigate the authors of the proposed new contract for our new doctors which the ZHDA has described as falling below any standard contract of employment even those that used to guide slave-master relationships in the slave trade era.
“We believe the contract and those who are pushing for its implementation are doing so outside Cabinet knowledge and approval.” The contract allows for a doctor to be fired after being given one month’s notice.
Nyamande said they were now of the opinion that the contract and those pushing for its implementation were doing so without Cabinet approval.
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HSB chairman Lovemore Mbengeranwa could not be reached for comment.
