Govt braces for crippling strike

CIVIL servants’ threats to go on strike if government fails to pay them by close of business today has sent government into a panic mode, with the Health ministry announcing measures to brace for a full-scale strike.

Despite threats by acting Public Service minister Lazarus Dokora, government workers yesterday vowed to go ahead with their planned strike.

All along, government had been downplaying the strike threats by doctors and nurses, but an official in the Health ministry yesterday announced contingency plans as government braces for the potentially crippling strike.

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