Tanzania: Doctors end strike

Doctors in Tanzania have agreed to resume work after meeting the Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda today. The doctors, as a condition for them to return to work, gave the government a month to attend to their grievances - ending a three-week old strike that had paralyzed the health sector.



EVERY REASON TO SMILE!. . . . PM Mizengo Pinda managed to find common ground with medical doctors to end the strike.

The situation in hospitals had become unbearable as ordinary citizens were suffering after failing to get medical attention. Meanwhile the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Blandina Nyoni and the government Chief Medical Officer, Dr Deo Mtasiwa, have been sacked as the government engaged in fire fighting tactics to end the strike.

The Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda announced the sacking during a meeting with doctors where they were mapping the way forward. The two have been accused of bungling the doctors’ case and are accused of failing to find a lasting solution to the problem.