Health CS Cleopa Mailu has advised the doctors’ union to appeal the jailing of their officials and resume negotiations. They are pay increase and post-graduate training, where medics demand universities should award them 400 scholarships every year, paid for by the state. He said the government regrets the decision made by the court to jail doctors’ union officials for one month after they failed to call off their strike. Mailu said he is optimistic an agreement would have been reached last Friday had doctors accepted the government’s offer. The doctors’ union says its negotiating team and the government had settled on 97 per cent of all demands and only two items remained before the officials were jailed.

Source: The Star February 14, 2017 07:51 UTC