Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:05:16 +0000 WE congratulate the Residents Doctors Association of Zambia for its maturity and sense of patriotism in calling off the 10-day strike it intended to stage from yesterday. When it comes to matters of life and death, doctors have the professional and moral latitude to do the right thing. In the first place there was no need for a strike by the resident doctors. Yes, they have challenges in their work and living quarters but a strike was totally uncalled for. What they needed was administrative action by the University Teaching Hospital management to attend to their complaints. It is surprising that the strike was instigated by the resident doctors’ association branch at UTH and had no blessing of the national association leadership and the entire union membership throughout the country. The UTH branch cannot decide to impose its will on the entire membership of the association or usurp the […]
