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Africa Live: Survivor, 8, of crash that killed 45 returns to Botswana - BBC News Africa Live: Survivor, 8, of crash that killed 45 returns to Botswana - BBC News
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An eight-year-old girl, the only passenger who survived after a bus plunged off a bridge in South Africa, has left hospital and flown back to her home country. Kenyan doctors working in public hospitals have rejected a government offer aimed at ending a weeks-long
Forty-five pilgrims were travelling from Botswana's capital, Gaborone, to an Easter service in the South African town of Moria when their vehicle crashed through a barrier and caught fire upon hitting the ground some 50m (165ft) below. strike that has hampered health services.
The surviving girl was hospitalised with serious injuries. She is now in a stable condition. The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists
Health authorities in the north-eastern Limpopo province, where the crash took place, said the girl flew from Polokwane Airport on Wednesday morning. Union (KMPDU) went on
Pictures posted by the authorities on Facebook show the girl being transported to her flight via wheelchair. A blanket covers her face and she appears to have a bandage wrapped round her head. strike on 14 March over the non-payment of salary arrears, delays by the government to deploy medical interns and other grievances.
In one image, a teddy bear rests on her lap. Late on Tuesday, the government asked the doctors to end their strike, saying the salary arrears have
been paid and that trainee doctors would be hired from Thursday
this week.
"We decline these proposals in total," KMPDU chairman Abidan Mwachi responded on social media platform X.
He said the government's offer does not "honour" a collective bargaining agreement that was signed in 2017, when a separate doctors' strike lasted for three months.
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