Kinshasa, September 30th, 2026 (CPA).- The health sector trade union coalition (ISS) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has issued a seven-day strike notice to the government, calling on it to address their demands, including the issue of pay, in a statement made on Wednesday in Kinshasa.
The health sector trade union coalition (ISS) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in a statement delivered on Wednesday in Kinshasa, has issued a seven-day strike notice to the government, calling on it to address their demands, including the issue of pay. ‘The ISS has just issued a seven-day strike notice addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister in charge of the Civil Service, Administrative Modernisation and Public Service Innovation, and to the heads of the various inter-ministerial health commissions. This follows the government’s unfavourable response to the concerns raised by staff and managers in the health sector,” has declared Jean-Fidele Boyoo, coordinator of the ISS.
“In seven days’ time, if the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in charge of the Civil Service – who represents the government in relation to our cause – fails to provide a favourable response, staff and managers in the health sector will go on strike,” he has added. Mr Boyoo has explained that the main causes of their anger include, in particular, permanent appointment, promotion in grade, indexation to the basic salary, alignment with the occupational risk allowance, salary scale adjustments, payment of arrears of risk allowances, the redeployment of staff awaiting assignment, the effective involvement of trade union representatives in universal health cover activities, the effective implementation of the mechanisms announced under the health promotion fund, and the organisation of physical inspection missions as provided for in various agreements signed with the government. The ISS’s national coordination body brings together various trade unions to defend the rights of staff and managers in the health sector. These include, in particular, the National Union of Doctors (SYNAMED) and the Congo Nurses’ Union (SYMECO).