POLITICS

Govt fires 77 striking doctors

GOVERNMENT has fired 77 doctors who have been on strike for better conditions for over two months while disciplinary action against the other medical professionals on industrial action is still ongoin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa targets 'troublesome' doctors

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threatened 'troublesome' union leaders reported to be inciting the strike by doctors at public health institutions."Last month we gave them an increment twice, b...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 October 2019

POLITICS

No pay for some striking doctors

GOVERNMENT has reportedly docked the salaries of some striking doctors who downed tools 47 days ago and refused to go back to work even after the Labour Court declared their job action unlawful. Zimba...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 October 2019

POLITICS

Court orders striking doctors to report for work within 48 hours

Striking doctors must return to work within 48 hours, or face a misconduct charge, the Labour Court ruled on Friday.The court found that the work boycott by junior doctors pressing for better pay, whi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Striking doctors dig in

ZIMBABWE'S health crisis continues to slide down the precipice, with doctors at public hospitals yesterday vowing to extend their industrial action, promising to report for duty today, but not giving ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Doctors exit the Health Apex Council

Striking junior doctors might not be able to negotiate their conditions of service going forward following their latest decision to exit the Health Apex Council, which represents not only them, but th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe doctors to defy government ultimatum to return to work

 Striking doctors on Sunday vowed to press on with their job boycott, despite getting an ultimatum from health minister Obadiah Moyo to report for work on Monday or face disciplinary action.The d...

By ZimLive | Published: 06 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe doctors' salaries pegged between $8 000 and $11 000

THE Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obadiah Moyo, has brokered a deal with striking doctors by offering them a 60 percent increase in allowances and ordered all health workers to report to work ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe doctors ordered back to work

DOCTORS in public health institutions have been awarded a 60 percent increment as Government yesterday issued a directive that they abandon their industrial action and return to duty by tomorrow.Failu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Junior doctors say no to 'new' deal

Striking junior doctors last night rejected a deal that was signed between government and Apex team leaders which could have seen an end to the month-long industrial action saying they did not agree t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 January 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Divisions rock striking Zimbabwe 'intern' doctors camp

DIVISIONS have rocked the country's public hospital doctors camp following their conflicting Friday messages on the status of a five-week-long strike which was said to have been called off at the behe...

By newzimbabwe | Published: 04 January 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Labour unrest as teachers, nurses and senior doctors join strike

Zimbabwe has been plunged into a labour crisis of monumental proportions after senior doctors, nurses and teachers joined the ongoing strike by junior doctors which is now more than a month old.Nurses...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 January 2019

POLITICS

'Intern' doctors refuse to return to work

The negotiations between health workers and Government yesterday failed to lure striking doctors back to work as they insisted on their demands despite the employer offering to review their allowances...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 January 2019

POLITICS

Chiwenga, doctors in crunch meeting

FEAR gripped government yesterday forcing discussions with striking junior doctors as well as consultants and senior health practitioners, who on Friday issued a 48-hour-ultimatum, NewsDay can reveal....

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 December 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe doctors' strike continues

DOCTORS at public hospitals yesterday said they will continue with their industrial action and implored government to be more serious with health care and move with speed to avert collapse of the heal...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt, doctors talks deadlocked

THE strike by doctors at public hospitals, which started last weekend, is set to continue after a meeting between Health minister Obadiah Moyo and the doctors' representatives yesterday ended without ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

OPINION

Doctors' demands more important than chiefs' cars

IN the run-up to the July 30 elections, Zanu-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised that he would be a listening President and that his government was going to guarantee an affordable, but vi...

By Editorial - newsday | Published: 05 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

More Zimbabwe doctors join strike

More doctors yesterday joined the on-going strike, defying a government message to call off the job action.The doctors have been on strike since Saturday to protest poor remuneration and the deteriora...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Doctors' strike spreads

JUNIOR doctors at public hospitals yesterday stepped up their strike for better working conditions and remuneration, forcing some major hospitals to close down key departments and discharge "stable" p...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2018

OPINION

Govt must address key issues behind doctors' strike

GOVERNMENT must deal with key issues behind the doctors' strike.Junior doctors in most parts of the country have gone on strike, no surprise there. The strike action by the doctors has become an annua...

By Editorial - newsday | Published: 04 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Call for doctors to end strike

Government yesterday urged striking junior doctors to go back to work while it was looking into their grievances. Junior doctors at public health facilities downed tools on Saturday citing several cha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe doctors down tools

JUNIOR doctors at public health facilities have downed tools since Saturday citing many challenges, which include bad working conditions, low salaries and lack of basic medicines and equipment.Acting ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe doctors call nationwide strike

GOVERNMENT doctors have called a nationwide strike, citing what they described as "severe incapacitation and inability to withstand the current disabling working environment".The development increases...

By newzimbabwe | Published: 02 December 2018

POLITICS

Doctors nail Zimbabwe army in killings

ZIMBABWE'S military was responsible for the fatal shooting of six civilians, some of whom had nothing to do with the post-election protests that erupted on August 1 in Harare, the Zimbabwe Association...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 November 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa commends American doctors

The power of partnering in worthy causes was demonstrated on Wednesday when President Mnangagwa and First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa hosted a special dinner at State House for American doctors, who ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018
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