Junior doctors owed 2 months’ salaries

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

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.”

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