By Own Correspondent| Government officials and doctors’ representatives are set to meet today in the capital, Harare for crunch talks aimed at ending a month-long junior doctors’ strike.

This was confirmed by Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors’ Association (ZHDA) Secretary-General Dr Anele Bhebhe in a telephone interview with state media on Sunday.

Said Bhebhe:

“We will have a bi-party negotiation panel tomorrow (today). The delegation will be comprised of the Health Service Board (HSB), representatives of the Treasury, the Apex board, pharmacies and different representatives of various health care workers and also the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors’ Association.

We are going to talk about our conditions of service for hospital doctors and other health practitioners and we hope that our grievances will be heard.

Addressing these issues has been prolonged unnecessarily and we fully understand that people are suffering. However, we also need to ensure that our grievances are heard and understood.

… The grievances that have been raised by the doctors, junior doctors, middle-level doctors and senior doctors are very true and they are not an issue for debate and we believe that if dialogue is restored and we go back to the negotiating table a long lasting solution can be proffered and this is what we are praying for even today.”-StateMedia