The government has flatly rejected striking junior doctors’ demands for U.S. dollar wages with Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo describing the idea as “awkward” in an economy that is experiencing foreign currency shortages.
At a post-cabinet media briefing on Tuesday, he said US dollar wages were far from government’s plans as the economy was still struggling with the little amounts of foreign currency it could access.
Zimbabwe’s junior doctors downed their tools beginning of this month demanding, among other things, US dollar wages to survive a volatile economy, allowance review and improvements to their working conditions in an environment afflicted by acute drugs shortages.
The strike has plunged public hospitals into crisis with a vulnerable population at a loss on how to respond to the situation.
[…] a statement, Chiwenga said the government would no longer tolerate public demonstrations at the medical facilities whose purpose is to attend to patients to ensure their full […]
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