By Kim Saulse
2 July 2009
Government has called on all striking medical professionals to return to work immediately. Cabinet met in Cape Town yesterday, where it assured state doctors that government had listened, understood their plight and that conditions in public health facilities would improve with time.
Cabinet says government’s final offer shows a salary improvement for medical staff. It warns that the labour dispute is doing significant harm. They say it is adding more tension to an already strained public health sector and depriving ordinary South Africans of access to essential health care.
In Cape Town, Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has also condemned striking state doctors for depriving "the poorest of the poor" of health care.
But he added a call to government to speed up talks to meet doctors' needs. Makgoba calls the strike “a sad state of affairs”. He wants to know from the Health Department what the effects of the strike are on the infant mortality rate.
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How selfish and unfair for the gorvenment to expect Doctors to work the hours they and still pay them the salaries that they do? and the same officials get huge cheques for doing what really, this true pisses me off.
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