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Doctors suspend strike on humanitarian grounds

The aggrieved Medical and House Officers attached to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, yesterday decided to suspend their laying down tools action based on humanitarian grounds, as their role is to save the lives of fellow human beings according to a press release issued. The release states that the strike action was a unanimous decision by the Medical and House Officers attached to MOHS to restore the dignity of their noble profession and to avoid the recurrence of the incident that took place on December 9th 2013. There claim is that the alleged incident which was between their medical colleague and the Minister of Health and Sanitation, Miatta Kargbo, will set a bad precedent. They added that it was not a plot or any design to kick the Minister out of her office neither was it politically motivated as stated in various newspapers which went on to mention some of their colleagues by name. According to the release, the Minister on the said date barged into the out patient a...