University Of Zimbabwe College Of Health Sciences (UZCHS) lecturers in the department of surgery have withdrawn their teaching services in protest against the unprocedural replacement of their Head of Department and ill-treatment of Part Five Medical Students (MBChB) and MMED students by the UZCHS dean Professor Rangarirai Masanganise.
Health Times claims that the department of surgery has in a letter informed the University authorities that lecturers were withdrawing their services.Part of the letter reads:
The department of Surgery UZ consultants have suspended their work services with immediate effect as they await for the Vice Chancellor to address them and give redress to the issues of unfair dismissal of their chairperson and the appointment of one Faith Muchemwa as substantive chairperson in total disregard to the standing statutes of the University.
The Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA) and Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) claim that the dismissal of Dr David Muchuweti and Dr David Chimuka followed by the subsequent appointment of Professor Faith Muchemwa, contravened the University’s laws.
The associations also say that the suspension of the lecturers was a danger to the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and a South African company partnership on cardiothoracic surgery and to the country’s health delivery system.
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