By SANFROSSA MANYINDATHE Resident Doctors Association of Zambia (RDAZ) says health care workers across the country are disturbed due to lack of motivation from Government in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.The organisation has called on Government to motivate healthcare workers especially with a proper offer of a risk allowance as well as compensation.RDAZ outgoing president, Isaac Sakala, said the need for Government to quickly move in and help the doctors could not be over emphasised because they had already done enough at the stage.Dr Sakala said in an interview in Kitwe yesterday that “Government has not honoured the request that doctors made with regards to cushioning their burden while fighting Covid-19.“In the proposals, we had requested that Government provides compensation to the doctors because if doctors died today while fighting Covid-19, their families would not be compensated with anything and this alone is a demotivation to the doctors.”Dr Sakala said the two percent risk […]
DOCTORS CRY FOR ‘PROPER’ RISK ALLOWANCE
