"We are ready for everything, including a partial stoppage of services, in the coming weeks," said Sinmea's secretary general, Pedro da Rosa, at a press conference in Luanda.
Adriano Manuel, president of the union, was suspended, in July, from the position of head of hospital infection control, for denouncing, in early June, the death of 19 children in the former emergency bank of the public hospital.
"Violation of professional secrecy and of the principles of professional ethics and deontology", according to the hospital management, are the infractions that weigh on the doctor, having also been fined with a cut of 1/6 of his salary in two months.
Sinmea regretted the "compulsory transfer" that the president says he is targeting for the human resources sector of the Ministry of Health, where he has already appeared.
For doctors, the administrative act of the management of that hospital unit of reference in the treatment of children "has no legal basis and violates freedom of expression and the Union Law that prohibits transfers".
Faced with these "violations of the law", he continued, the union believes that this is an illegality that is highly sponsored by the Ministry of Health's human resources, with the clear aim of silencing the leadership of the doctors' union and its respective extinction.
"If this were not the case, the problem would be resolved internally, among doctors, and peacefully," he said.
Pedro da Rosa recalled that the violation of ethics and professional secrecy of the medical profession is a matter for the ethics and deontology committee of the Ordem dos Médicos Angola, lamenting the Order's "silence and deafness".
"As if it is silent, we do not want to be silent. We mobilize all our affiliates, from Cabinda to Cunene, for a petition, to show our indignation and to tell those who insist on persecuting us that the union is strong and cohesive in around your leader, "he said.
The secretary-general of Sinmea also defended "special treatment" of health professionals in times of the pandemic of covid-19, referring that the situation of public calamity "conditions" the professionals to go for a strike.
"Were it not for the situation of public calamity, we would be moving all our forces for a strike", he noted.
New emergency service wards, short-term hospitalization, external consultation and day hospital at the Pediatric Hospital of Luanda were inaugurated on 27 June by President João Lourenço.
The official was speaking during a press conference of the Trade Union Concertation Forum of the health sector unions affiliated to the National Union of Angolan Workers - Trade Union Confederation (UNTA-CS).
