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A number of junior doctors, who were among 300 fired for embarking on strike action late last year, have been fined US $200 each for abandoning their patients, news reports said on Monday.
The reports said that if the doctors failed to pay within 90 days, their annual practising certificates would be cancelled. Mushauka Mukunyandela from the Zambian Medical Council was quoted as saying: "The council found 71 junior doctors guilty of wilfully neglecting, abandoning and refusing to attend to patients entrusted in their professional care."
Health Minister David Mpamba told the state-run 'Times of Zambia' that it was regrettable that doctors had to be fined for their unethical behaviour. "We told them that they have to act in a mature manner, but they did not want to listen. Now the medical council, which is their competent and professional
body, has also found them guilty," Mpamba said.
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