Maputo — Contrary to claims that the Mozambican national health service is suffering from a massive exodus of staff, in fact less than one per cent of the staff leave the service annually of their own initiative.
Health Minister Nazira Abdula gave this figure to the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Wednesday, answering a question from the main opposition party, the rebel movement Renamo, which depicted a health service in crisis, as its workers jumped ship for the greener pastures of the private sector.
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