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The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has met the Health Services Board (HSB) over the amendment of junior doctors’ contract. HSB introduced a contract for medical interns last month, which they said was aimed at instilling discipline and order in the country’s health delivery system. ZHDA argues that the contract does not stipulate a doctor’s earnings, does not provide a salary for female interns when they are on maternity leave, does not guarantee payment of on-call allowances and allows a junior doctor to be fired with one month’s notice.
In an interview, ZHDA president Dr Fortune Nyamande said the doctors’ representative body met HSB at a Bipartite Negotiating Forum where their employer assured them that they would look into the matter, but did not say when matters might be resolved.
The meeting between ZHDA and their employer follows a request by the doctors to meet HSB and Health and Child Welfare Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa over the contracts. They argue that the employer did not consult them.
Dr Nyamande said ZHDA would continue to urge its members around the country to retrieve and reject the contracts they received at the hospitals where they are stationed.
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