MEDICAL INTERNS WITHOUT ALLOWANCES FROM MARCH THIS YEAR, 2019
This is not the first time this has happened, having happened several years ago. They see their situation across the river without solution. More than 58 medical graduates, in internships in different hospitals in the city of Maputo, have not received the monthly allowances since last March.
The Ministry of Health (MISAU) promises to pay later this month. The students alluded to are from Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) - the oldest higher education institution in the country - and have been attending the Faculty of Medicine for almost six years. Prospective doctors are out of touch with the top management of MISAU, due to non-payment of the monthly internship allowance, set at 19,581, 60 meticais, which has not been paid since March, when they signed the contracts for training and / or further training. . “We signed contracts on March 6 this year” and since then “we have been meeting with the Ministry of Health about what is going on” to the point of not paying the outstanding allowances, he told
“The Country” a student who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal.
According to him, the MISAU has been missing the word and does not say, specifically, the reasons for non-payment of the amounts in question. The trainee doctors also said that the nine-month internship money, which is not in their hands, would also be used to buy gloves and other work materials, as it is supposedly scarce in the public hospitals where they are interning. “Many of us yearned for money to take transportation. In addition, HCM (Maputo Central Hospital) does not give gloves, does not give masks, does not give us any protective material. We are responsible for our own protection, ”said another distraught student.
The national director of human resources at MISAU, Norton Pinto, acknowledged that there is a problem that student interns complain about and that it will prevail in the coming years, because, contrary to the policy that was adopted in the past, now interns no longer paid by the partners' funds, but with funds from the state budget. According to Norton Pinto, the delay in the payment of the allowances alluded to is due to the fact that the students begin the internship before signing the contracts - which would count the complainants' own statements - and the lack of budgetary appropriateness for their payment. The speaker assured that the ministry is making efforts to change the situation, ensuring that students will be paid later this month, but once the bulk of the contracts have been approved, which "means there is already value". At this time, the trainees “are being registered and then start the payment process.
We thought this December we will pay. ” According to data from the last census, the Mozambican population is estimated at around 28 million inhabitants. And according to MISAU, to meet this universe there are 2 400 doctors in the country, of which 240 are foreigners.
Isaías Mavunice
Source: http://opais.sapo.mz/