Doctors demand salary in US$

DISGRUNTLED members of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association have said they are waiting on the newly-appointed Minister of Health and Child Care, Obadiah Moyo, to offer them a better deal — which includes salary payment in United States dollars —failure of which they will go on strike.

Doctors spent the greater part of this year protesting over poor working conditions.

ZHDA vice-president and spokesperson Mxolisi Ngwenya told Southern Eye that members of his association were waiting for the new minister to take action in solving the problems bedevilling the health sector.

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