Addressing a press conference in Harare, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday begged doctors to end their strike for the sake of their patients.
He said Government values doctors and had worked on meeting their demands. Said Ncube:
We value our junior doctors and all our health workers and of course we sympathise with their plight like we do with the plight of every Zimbabwean in this transitional situation. Government has done a lot in meeting the demands of the junior doctors – fuel for transportation purposes, vehicle loans and other such demands that they placed upon us and we responded. We feel that we are really doing our part in responding to their demands. I think it would be unfair for them to continue staying out there. People are dying in hospitals and I think that it is important that ethics are put before everything else. They should go back to work while we do our part to meet their demands. They are valued employees of this country and the health sector
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