Private medics are expected to join the ongoing doctors strike from Tuesday a move that is expected to depeen the health crisis.

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According to the Star, the medics will down their tools in solidarity with their public hospital counterparts.

The doctors union is demanding a 300 per cent pay increment for doctors, and 25 to 40 per cent pay increments for nurses.

They said they had signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement with the government in 2013